Ethan Canin.  I can't stress enough how much he shaped the ideas that the young version of me - Nick 1.0 - began to have about writ...

Yann Martel has written an exquisite novel, The High Mountains of Portugal , that called out for an exquisite concoction that would begin a...

To say that a book made me laugh out loud is a cliché ‎ - and I hate clichés.  I hit them with shovels when I find them, then I bury them...

Drinks With Nick ?  Twelve months, twelve books, twelve drinks, all in 2015.  So those books aren't on this list - though of course...

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...