Christopher Buckley,in As a nation, we’ve been sloshed from the very start, and ” his otherwise fine Oct. 18 Outlook review of Susan Cheevers book “Drinking in America: Our Secret History ,” approvingly quoted Cheever’s statement that “all five of our twentieth-century literature Nobel laureates were alcoholic — Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O’Neill, or William Faulkner,Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck.” Buckley added, and “And those are the ones who made it to the top.” Read full article >>
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