Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories

Shaken and Stirred is an enticing literary cocktail of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries.

In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppances at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis; Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle liquor-soaked epiphanies; while John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and Robert Coover set their characters afloat on ...