Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times
by Sara Nicklès (Editor)
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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.Tags
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the author selection is fantastic, and many of the short stories and selections are top notch. my only complaint is the inclusion of authors like Mark Twain, who can sure match the snark, but his musings on cigars lack the prescience of other works in the collection. Overall, a fun, breezy read.
Long before the proverbial third-party around the corner could overhear some ribaldry and file a claim, when flirting was not a lost art and sex was not yet a minor medical procedure, people knew how to have a good time. It must've been false consciousness.
This is a collection of stories/poems about the three sins: Drinking, Smoking and Screwing.
Some of the stories were so good, I wanted to reread them, or I made other people read.
Some of the stories were lame....which is why this book earned a 4 (instead of 5 stars).
Some of the stories were so good, I wanted to reread them, or I made other people read.
Some of the stories were lame....which is why this book earned a 4 (instead of 5 stars).
This is a collection of stories/poems about the three sins: Drinking, Smoking and Screwing.
Some of the stories were so good, I wanted to reread them, or I made other people read.
Some of the stories were lame....which is why this book earned a 4 (instead of 5 stars).
Some of the stories were so good, I wanted to reread them, or I made other people read.
Some of the stories were lame....which is why this book earned a 4 (instead of 5 stars).
Two stars for the two stories in this book that I actually enjoyed.
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- Original publication date
- 1994
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- Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 810.80355 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English Anthologies and Collections Themes and subjects
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- PS509 .D75 .D74 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature
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