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Through the Dam

  • Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • October 15, 2013
We both pretended to ignore the brown bag inserted into the plastic grocery bags. We ignored my role as witness to this process.
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Under the Table

  • J. E. Buntin
  • September 30, 2013
The headaches, my difficulty focusing, my specimen-daze, that floating island, my spastic, nervous heart—which are side effects from drinking, and which were inevitable?
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Writing and Drinking and Writing about Drinking

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • July 29, 2013
Alcohol and authors. It’s a subject so old and rich and fraught you could write a book on it—which is exactly what Olivia Laing did. That book is called The Trip…
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The Rumpus Interview with Rosie Schaap

  • Jami Attenberg
  • January 22, 2013
Rosie Schaap discusses Drinking with Men, her love of poetry, her intriguing family members, and what she would do with her life if she weren’t a writer.
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Winter Binges

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • January 23, 2012
“There is something of a binge drinking belt across the north of the country, running westward from New England, Pennsylvania and Ohio to Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota…
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My Little Brother Ruined My Life

  • Stephen Elliott
  • January 17, 2012
"Are you a masochist?" It's the first thing Bosco asks me. He's fourteen years old now, almost my height, 5' 8", creamy white skin, and a small, German nose from my stepmother's side of the family.
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Drinkers Are Smarter, Says Science

  • Seth Fischer
  • May 6, 2010
In the department of You Can Prove Anything With Science, this statistics-happy chap finds that “the more intelligent, who scored high on a vocabulary test, … drink more than the…
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Science Saturday

  • Brian Spears
  • August 29, 2009
I’m starting this Science Saturday in the world of alcoholic consumption, which is a world very dear to me. I am joyful in every study that suggests moderate drinking is…
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