Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (836 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1580054110 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 268 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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With friends and with coworkers, at date night and at ladies' night, and on special occasions ranging from Valentine’s Day to the Super Bowl, we encounter alcoholyet when it comes to discussing the nature of our relationship with drinking, few of us do so honestly and openly.In Drinking Diaries, editors Leah Odze Epstein and Caren Osten Gerszberg take women's drinking stories out of the closet and into the light. Ask any woman you know to tell you a drinking story, and she’ll come up with onein fact, she may even come up with five. booze, no topic related to alcohol is off limits in this illuminating anthology. Whether it’s shame, sober sex, and relapsing, or college drinking, bonding, and comparing the benefits of pot vs. With contributions from celebrated writers including Jacquelyn Mitchard, Daphne Merkin, Kathryn Harrison, Ann Hood, Ann Leary, Pam Houston, Jane Friedman, Elissa Schappell, Asra Nomani, Priscilla Warner, Rita Williams, and Joyce Maynard, Drinking Diaries is a candid look at the pleasures and pains of drinking, and the many ways in which it touches women’s lives.. Whether you drink it or not, alcohol is likely a potent part of your life: our culture is saturated in it
A Great Commentary on Creativity and Alcohol From Whitman and his early temperance novel to Hemingway and Steinbeck's shilling of Ballantine Beer, a lot has been said and written about male authors and their perverse affair with liquor. With Drinking Diaries, women writers give us their side of the story. Th. Yogamissy said So insightful, well edited, great writing.. This book hits the spot! Drinking as a metaphor? Drinking as a relationship impediment or stimulator? Drinking as escape? Drinking as entertainment? Drinking as a habit? Not drinking as a response to family experiences? I loved this book because it made me think, . "Read this while sipping!" according to Paula Derrow. This collection contains smart, heartfelt essays from terrific writers like Daphne Merkin and Joyce Maynard--and some other newbies that you may not know (but will WANT to). Far from a collection of sob stories about alcoholism, these essays open the subject of wo
Her career in publishing began with a summer job at French Vogue in Paris, which paved the way for a full-time position at Mademoiselle magazine in New York. She currently blogs about women and drinking for The Huffington Post, and some of her poems can be found on the website Literary Mama.Born and raised in Bethesda, Maryland, Epstein now lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband and three children.. About the AuthorCaren Osten Gerszberg is a freelance writer and co-founder of the blog Drinking Dia
Carter Journalism Institute. She has also had a regular column, Mom U,” about her daughter’s college admission experience, at NYTimes.Born and raised in New York, Gerszberg graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, going on to earn a dual master's degree in French and journalism at New York University. A passionate traveler, she li