Those Drinking Days

<p>Novelist Donald Newlove (1928-2021) contemplates how alcoholism has affected the lives and work of other writers as well as himself.</p><p><br></p><p>. . . a passionate blend: part autobiography part confessional part sketches of famous alcoholic writers and part sermon on the dangers of 'Drunkspeare' . . . its bird song and purling ravishment bliss of self-love. . . . Like improvisational jazz . . . the Newlove sound is robust and swinging the mark of a man who has discovered that his talent is intoxication enough. </p><p>- R.Z. Sheppard <em>Time</em></p><p><br></p><p>Newlove's memoir makes <em>The Lost Weekend</em> by Charles Jackson seem like a dull college weekend. It is quite simply terrifying a tale to chill the blood of anyone who's ever hoisted a drink in a bar. It is a book with both literary merit and social value of the most redeeming sort imaginable.</p><p>- Judson Hand <em>New York Daily New</em>s</p><p><br></p><p><em>Those Drinking Days</em> ought to be read. It is an astonishing moving memoir.</p><p>- Joel Oppenheimer <em>New York Times</em></p>