Hemingway & Bailey's Bartending Guide to Great American Writers (15 page)

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Winesburg, Ohio.
New York: Penguin, 1992.

Baldwin, James.
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone.
New York: Dial Press, 1968.

Barnes, Djuna.
Nightwood.
New York: New Directions, 1961.

Benchley, Robert. “Cocktail Hour.”
The Benchley Roundup: A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of His Favorites.
Ed. by Nathaniel Benchley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Benson, Jackson J.
The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer.
New York: Viking, 1984.

Bergreen, Laurence.
James Agee: A Life.
New York: Dutton, 1984. Berryman, John.
The Dream Songs.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969.

Brinkley, Douglas. “Contentment Was Not Enough: The Final Days at Owl Farm.”
Rolling Stone,
24 Mar. 2005.

Bruccoli, Matthew J.
James Gould Cozzens: A Life Apart.
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.

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Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.

Bukowski, Charles.
Hollywood.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989.

Capote, Truman. “Master Misery.”
The Complete Stories of Truman
Capote.
New York: Vintage, 2005.

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Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote
. Ed. by Gerald Clarke. New York: Vintage, 2005.

Carver, Raymond.
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New York: Vintage, 1989.

Chandler, Raymond.
The Long Goodbye
. New York: Vintage Crime, 1992.

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Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler.
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Charters, Anne.
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Cheever, John. “The Common Day.”
The Stories of John Cheever.
New York: Knopf, 1978.

Cheever, Susan.
Home Before Dark.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

Clark, Tom.
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. New York: Marlowe & Company, 1984.

Clarke, Gerald.
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New York: Simon & Schuster. 1988.

Cozzens, James Gould.
Ask Me Tomorrow.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1940.

Crane, Hart. “The River.”
Complete Poems of Hart Crane.
Ed. by Marc Simon. New York: Liveright, 1986.

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O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane.
Ed. by Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1997.

Dabney, Lewis M.
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005.

Dardis, Tom.
The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989.

Donald, David Herbert.
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Donaldson, Scott, ed.
Conversations with John Cheever.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1987.

Estrin, Mark W., ed.
Conversations with Eugene O’Neill
. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1990.

Fabre, Michel, and Robert E. Skinner, eds.
Conversations with Chester Himes.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.

Farr, Finis.
O’Hara: A Biography
. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1973.

Faulkner, William.
Sanctuary.
New York: Random House, 1931.

Field, Andrew.
Djuna: The Life and Times of Djuna Barnes.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1983.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.
Tender Is the Night.
New York: Scribner, 1995.

Gelb, Arthur, and Barbara Gelb.
O’Neill: Life with Monte Cristo.
New York: Applause, 2000.

Gentry, Marshall Bruce, and William L. Stull, eds.
Conversations with Raymond Carver.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.

Gussow, Mel. “Tennessee Williams on Art and Sex.”
New York Times,
3 Nov. 1975.

Hammett, Dashiell.
The Maltese Falcon.
New York: Vintage Crime, 1992.

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The Thin Man
. New York: Vintage Crime, 1992.

Hellman, Lillian.
Maybe: A Story.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1980.

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Pentimento.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1973.

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An Unfinished Woman.
1969. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1969.

Hemingway, Ernest.
The Nick Adams Stories.
New York: Scribner, 1999.

Herring, Phillip.
Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes.
New York: Viking, 1995.

Himes, Chester.
The Quality of Hurt: The Early Years: The Autobiography of Chester Himes.
New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1995.

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A Rage In Harlem.
New York: Vintage Crime, 1989.

Hiney, Tom.
Raymond Chandler: A Biography.
New York: Grove Press, 1999.

Hobson, Fred.
Mencken: A Life.
New York: Random House, 1994.

Johns, Bud.
The Ombibulous Mr. Mencken.
San Francisco: Synergistic Press, 1968.

Jones, James.
From Here to Eternity.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952.

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To Reach Eternity: The Letters of James Jones.
Ed. by George Hendrick. New York: Random House, 1989.

Kerouac, Jack.
The Dharma Bums
. New York: Penguin, 1976.

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Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters: 1940–1956
. Ed. by Anne Charters. New York: Penguin, 1996.

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On the Road.
New York: Viking, 1957.

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Some of the Dharma.
New York: Viking, 1997.

Kershaw, Alex.
Jack London: A Life.
London: HarperCollins, 1997.

Lardner, Ring.
Haircut and Other Stories.
New York: Touchstone, 1991.

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What of It?
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925.

Levant, Oscar.
The Unimportance of Being Oscar.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968.

Lewis, Sinclair.
Babbitt.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1922.

Lingeman, Richard.
Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street
. New York: Random House, 2002.

London, Jack.
John Barleycorn.
New York: Modern Library, 2001.

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The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories.
New York: Signet, 1964.

Lorenz, Clarissa M.
Lorelei Two: My Life with Conrad Aiken.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983.

Lowell, Robert. “The Drinker.”
Selected Poems
. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987.

Mariani, Paul.
The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane
. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.

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Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman.
New York: William Morrow, 1990.

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Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.

Marling, William.
Raymond Chandler.
Boston: Twayne, 1986.

McCullers, Carson.
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
. New York: Bantam, 1971.

Meade, Marion.
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
New York: Penguin, 1989.

Mellen, Joan.
Hellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett
. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

Meryman, Richard.
Mank: The Wit, World, and Life of Herman Mankiewicz
. New York: William Morrow, 1978.

Meyers, Jeffrey.
Hemingway: A Biography
. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Middlebrook, Diane Wood.
Anne Sexton: A Biography.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

Miles, Barry.
Charles Bukowski.
London: Virgin Books, 2005.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent.
Collected Poems.
Ed. by Norma Millay. New York: Harper & Row, 1956.

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Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Ed. by Allan Ross Macdougall. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952.

Moreau, Genevieve.
The Restless Journey of James Agee.
Trans. by Miriam Kleiger. New York: William Morrow, 1977.

Morris, Willie.
James Jones: A Friendship.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1978.

O’Hara, John.
Butterfield 8.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1935.

O’Neill, Eugene.
The Iceman Cometh.
New York: Vintage, 1999.

Page, Tim.
Dawn Powell: A Biography.
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1998.

Parini, Jay.
John Steinbeck: A Biography.
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1995.

Parker, Dorothy. “You Were Perfectly Fine.”
The New Yorker,
23 Feb. 1929.

Perry, Paul.
Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson.
New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1992.

Plimpton, George.
Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

Poe, Edgar Allan. “[Lines on Ale],” c. 1848. Accessed at
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Polito, Robert.
Savage Art.
New York: Knopf, 1995.

Powell, Dawn.
Angels on Toast.
South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 1996.

Quinn, Arthur Hobson.
Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Rader, Dotson.
Tennessee: Cry of the Heart.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1985.

Roberts, David.
Jean Stafford: A Biography.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1988.

Savigneau, Josyane.
Carson McCullers: A Life.
Trans. by Joan E. Howard. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Schorer, Mark.
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961.

Sexton, Anne. “For the Year of the Insane.”
Live or Die.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.

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Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters.
Ed. by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.

Silverman, Kenneth.
Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance
. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992.

Simpson, Eileen.
Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir.
New York: Vintage, 1983.

Spears, Ross, and Jude Cassidy, eds.
Agee: His Life Remembered.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985.

Standley, Fred L., and Louis H. Pratt, eds.
Conversations with James Baldwin.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989.

Steinbeck, John.
Tortilla Flat.
New York: Penguin, 1997.

Stull, William L., and Maureen P. Carroll, eds.
Remembering Ray: A Composite Biography of Raymond Carver.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1993.

Thompson, Hunter S. “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘76: Third-rate Romance, Low-rent Rendezvous.”
Rolling Stone,
3 June 1976.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
New York: Vintage, 1998.

Thompson, Jim.
The Grifters
. New York: Vintage Crime, 1993.

Thurber, James.
Credos and Curios.
New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

Tippins, Sherill.
February House.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Updike, John. “A Natural Writer.”
The New Yorker,
22 Sept. 2003.

Weizmann, Daniel, ed.
Drinking with Bukowski: Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row
. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2000.

Williams, Tennessee.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
New York: New Directions, 2004.

Wilson, Edmund.
I Thought of Daisy.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001.

———. “The Lexicon of Prohibition.”
The American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1958.

Wolfe, Thomas.
No Door: The Short Novels of Thomas Wolfe.
Ed. by C. Hugh Holman. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961.

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The Notebooks of Thomas Wolfe.
Ed. by Richard S. Kennedy and Paschal Reeves. Vol. 1. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970.

Wolff, Geoffrey.
The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O’Hara
. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Yardley, Jonathan.
Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner.
New York: Random House, 1977.

EDWARD HEMINGWAY: I would like to thank Ryan Magyar, George Boorujy, and Michelle Zackheim for their unwavering support and invaluable criticism. Many thanks also to Charlotte Sheedy, Maira Kalman, and the New York Public Library. To Brian Gaisford for introducing me to the pleasures of the grain and the grape. And a very special thank-you to my brothers, Brendan and Sean; my sister, Vanessa; and my uncle Patrick and aunt Carol. Finally, most of all, to my mother, Valerie Hemingway, who knew long before Mark and I did that a book about writers and their drinks was a great idea—here’s to you, Mums.

MARK BAILEY: I would like to thank some friends from Summit, New Jersey: Ed Beason, Andy Guida, James Klausmann, Tim Mackin, Pete Stein, and Keith Williams—and Tim Moriarty too—for the good old days. To my brother, Paul Bailey, with me from the beginning. And a special thanks to my wife, Rory. More than anyone or anything, you helped me to become a writer—as the song goes, “I could drink a case of you.”

A great many people worked very hard to make this book possible. In particular, the authors would like to thank the following: Antonia Fusco, our terrific editor. Sharp, funny, and fun to work with, you made the book better and better. David Kuhn, our remarkable agent. From the initial idea to the book’s publication, we could not have had a greater friend and ally. Our incredibly persistent researchers, Peggy Gormley, Tim Mackin, and Emily Schlesinger. Forty-three authors meant countless original works, biographies, memoirs, interviews, and so on. This was an investigative journey through shelves and shelves of information, and you three were just wonderful. Our consulting bartenders, Sam Ross and Toby Maloney. You have turned bartending into an art form.