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Author Newlove's Book Reviews

Those Drinking Days
This Canadian memoir is subtitled "Myself and Other Writers." Though quite a few books have been written about talented writers and drink, this is the most personal. In the first half, Newlove turns a pitiless eye on himself, his alcoholic adventures, and the pain he caused and experienced. The stories are hair-raising as well as chillingly funny at times. The second half is devoted to alcoholic portraits of fellow authors: Lowry, Hemingway, Kerouac, Lar...