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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
EDWARD HEMINGWAY: I would like to thank Ryan Magyar, George Boorujy, and Michelle Zackheim for their unwavering support and invaluable criticism. Many thanks also to Charlotte Sheedy, Maira Kalman, and the New York Public Library. To Brian Gaisford for introducing me to the pleasures of the grain and the grape. And a very special thank-you to my brothers, Brendan and Sean; my sister, Vanessa; and my uncle Patrick and aunt Carol. Finally, most of all, to my mother, Valerie Hemingway, who knew long before Mark and I did that a book about writers and their drinks was a great idea—here’s to you, Mums.
MARK BAILEY: I would like to thank some friends from Summit, New Jersey: Ed Beason, Andy Guida, James Klausmann, Tim Mackin, Pete Stein, and Keith Williams—and Tim Moriarty too—for the good old days. To my brother, Paul Bailey, with me from the beginning. And a special thanks to my wife, Rory. More than anyone or anything, you helped me to become a writer—as the song goes, “I could drink a case of you.”
A great many people worked very hard to make this book possible. In particular, the authors would like to thank the following: Antonia Fusco, our terrific editor. Sharp, funny, and fun to work with, you made the book better and better. David Kuhn, our remarkable agent. From the initial idea to the book’s publication, we could not have had a greater friend and ally. Our incredibly persistent researchers, Peggy Gormley, Tim Mackin, and Emily Schlesinger. Forty-three authors meant countless original works, biographies, memoirs, interviews, and so on. This was an investigative journey through shelves and shelves of information, and you three were just wonderful. Our consulting bartenders, Sam Ross and Toby Maloney. You have turned bartending into an art form.
We learned a huge amount from your amazing palates and your extraordinary depth of knowledge. To the whole team at Algonquin who championed the book from the beginning, especially Elisabeth Scharlatt, Ina Stern, Craig Popelars, and Michael Taeckens. Also to Barbara Balch, Hillary Byrum, Billy Kingsland, Edward Klaris, Leora Mora, and Francesca Richer, and to our lawyers, Melissa Georges, Victoria Cook, and Ned Rosenthal. And finally, thank-you to all the biographers and editors whose work we depended on—you all did the heavy lifting. We encourage readers to look through our list of sources and to dive into these fantastic articles, biographies, and collections of letters and conversations; they are the real deal.
For permission to reprint some of the material in this book, grateful acknowledgment is made to the following:
“Punch the Immortal Liar” from Collected Poems by Conrad Aiken, Oxford University Press. Copyright © 1970 by Conrad Aiken. Reprinted by permission of Brandt and Hochman Literary Agents, Inc.
Selection from “Cocktail Hour” as taken copyright © 1938 by Robert Benchley from The Benchley Roundup: A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley and drawings by Gluyas Williams. Copyright 1954 by Nathaniel Benchley, renewed © 1982 by Majorie B. Benchley. Copyright 1921, 1922, 1925, 1927, 1928 by Harper & Brothers. Copyright 1930, 1932, 1943, 1936, 1938 by Robert C. Benchley. Copyright 1949, 1950, 1953 by Gertrude D. Benchley. Copyright 1929, 1930 by Chicago Tribune–New York News Syndicate, Inc. Copyright 1929 by Bookman Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright 1930 by Liberty Magazine, Inc. Copyright 1930 by D.A.C. News, Inc. Copyright 1933 by The Hearst Corporation. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpt from Dream Song #96 “Under the Table” from The Dream Songs by John Berryman. Copyright © 1969 by John Berryman. Copyright renewed 1997 by Kate Donahue Berryman. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
“The River,” from Complete Poems of Hart Crane by Hart Crane, edited by Marc Simon. Copyright 1933, 1958, 1966 by Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright © 1986 by Marc Simon. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Excerpt from “The Drinker” from Collected Poems by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 2003 by Harriet Lowell and Sheridan Lowell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
“Feast” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. From Collected Poems, HarperCollins. Copyright © 1923, 1951 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Elizabeth Barnett, literary executor.
Excerpt from “For the Year of the Insane” from Live or Die by Anne Sexton. Copyright © 1966 by Anne Sexton, renewed 1994 by Linda G. Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Creedos and Curios copyright © 1951 by James Thurber. Copyright © renewed 1962 Rosemary A. Thurber. Reprinted by arrangement with Rosemary A. Thurber and The Barbara Hogenson Agency.
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