Comments on: Top 15 Great Alcoholic Writers

By: grant

grant — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:55:06 +0000

Great Quaotes of Dorothy Parker – If they laid all the coeds from Yale end to end…I wouldn’t be surprised.
or:
i like to have a martini,
two at the very most -
at three i’m under the table,
at four, i’m under the host!

By: Cheeser

Cheeser — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:41:49 +0000

What about Eugene O’Neill? He won a Pulitzer Prize for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” which was a play about his entire family’s problems with drugs and alcohol.

By: brickbat

brickbat — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:41:39 +0000

how can you not mention Melissa LaRoque? Not only did she write “Don’t Break the Sabbath,King of diamonds!”, But Mercifully explained the Fate that we are all doomed to; Doom by the Living Dead! Oh and she drank a lot..,

By: c21h30o2

c21h30o2 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:21:45 +0000

Raymond Carver, Could be here also.

By: blueelm

blueelm — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:26:04 +0000

What, no Brautigan?

By: cmalberg

cmalberg — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:55:59 +0000

Yeah, definitely some of my favorite authors here, although I have never read any Raymond Chandler. I do, however have the complete O. Henry and a Fitzgerald collection beside my bed at this very moment.

By: Ldbean

Ldbean — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:20:05 +0000

What about Shakespeare?

By: solaris station

solaris station — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:44:16 +0000

My God. Some of the most talented people that I know and admire are in this list. These are true writers. About Bukowski: Yes he was ugly (?) , he was a drunk, a bump but he had STYLE. A woman told him once that she was impressed by him because he looked like he would “penetrate the wall”. (Look at him at YouTube. Look at his face. And listen the song ‘I wish to weep” (dadafon) from his poetry.) He is not more talented than Hemingway, let’s say, but he is the most drunk-talented. Didn’t know that Joyce drunk. That explain Ulysses. (ha).
Faulkner, Williams, Joyce, Poe. Giants. I guess it’s true that talent walks along with a curse. But you forgot Jack London.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:17:52 +0000

There are a shitload of composers, too, Beethoven included. Academia, which is in charge of the arts now, and pulling all the artistry out of it, has declared war on artists self-destructive tendencies. The new artisit has a PhD, wins numerous bullshit awards, and has the sterile personality of an accountant, with the talent to match.

By: screwjack

screwjack — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:20:34 +0000

I betcha Thompson drank more booze over his lifetime than any of the others above.
In regards to the league of talent listed- Henry Miller loved to drink to.