A Sidecar Named Desire: Great Writers and the Booze That Stirred Them

A rollicking illustrated history of alcohol and its literary imbibers, from Jane Austen’s beer brewing to James Joyce’s passion for Guinness to E.B. White’s cure for writers’ block—a dry martini—by celebrated illustrator Greg Clarke and award-winning editor/art director Monte Beauchamp.

“The tools that I need for my trade are simply pen, paper, food, tobacco, and a little whiskey.”

—William Faulkner

“I keep a dictionary, a Bible, a deck of cards and a bottle of sherry in the room.”

—Maya Ang...