One of the things I enjoy about drinking is the ritual of it all.  How do you make your Manhattan?  How do you craft your perfect Old Fashio...

I do these things, right?  I read and I drink.  I do other stuff, obviously, but for our purposes today it's the reading and the drinki...

First, happy birthday to me.  I just wanted to get that out of the way.  Yes, it was yesterday, and yes, this was supposed to have been pos...

April isn't the cruelest month, not when you can look forward to Marian Palaia's The Given World . Since you have to wait two ...

  Three soon-to-be books beget three cocktails.  Laura Dave's Eight Hundred Grapes is first because I went alphabet...

I first met Christian Kiefer a year ago when he came to the store for D. Foy's book signing.  D. Foy had just come out with his first n...

While living in Illinois in the early 1830's, Abraham Lincoln and his business partner, William Berry, owned a general store. ...