drinking
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Through the Dam
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
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
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 to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink, and Blake Morrison’s review…
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The Rumpus Interview with Rosie Schaap
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
“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 and Montana.” Atlantic Cities dissects binge drinking, looking at state-by-state…
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My Little Brother Ruined My Life
“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
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 dumb, who scored low.” (via @electriclit)
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Science Saturday
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 good for you, though I weep a bit inside when…