Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times - Softcover

Nickles, Sara; Shacochis, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811807843 ISBN 13: 9780811807845

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 1994

Synopsis

Before the notion of "political correctness" encroached on the ways people spoke, wrote, and conducted themselves in public and private, some of America's best writers embraced unsafe sex, excessive alcohol, and a good cigar. From the classically libidinous Henry Miller to the hilariously contemporary Fran Lebowitz, Drinking, Smoking and Screwing includes novel excerpts, essays, poems, and short stories in a bawdy and thoroughly entertaining anthology with no warnings -- and no apologies.

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Review:

Here's to the three greatest pleasures in life: a cigarette before and a martini after. Drinking, Smoking & Screwing celebrates these less-than-holy pursuits and unlocks the sweet mystery of sin with a sordid selection of essays, stories, excerpts, and poetry from noted libertines such as Mark Twain, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Spalding Gray, and Dorothy Parker. Also deliciously wicked is the introduction, penned by Bob Shacochis, author of Swimming the Volcano and not one to shy away from a drink, a smoke, and a... Well, you get the point. He writes, "Not to defend smokers, drinkers, and fuckers would be a terrible mistake.... The world might be simple and clean, but it wouldn't be deliciously, fascinatingly, pathetically human, would it? Nor would it be much fun." And, damn, is this book fun. --Tod Nelson

About the Author:

Bob Shocochis is the award-winning author of several short-story collections and novels, including Swimming in the Volcano.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0811807843
• ISBN 13: 9780811807845
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224