Hemingway & Bailey's Bartending Guide to Great American Writers (16 page)

We learned a huge amount from your amazing palates and your extraordinary depth of knowledge. To the whole team at Algonquin who championed the book from the beginning, especially Elisabeth Scharlatt, Ina Stern, Craig Popelars, and Michael Taeckens. Also to Barbara Balch, Hillary Byrum, Billy Kingsland, Edward Klaris, Leora Mora, and Francesca Richer, and to our lawyers, Melissa Georges, Victoria Cook, and Ned Rosenthal. And finally, thank-you to all the biographers and editors whose work we depended on—you all did the heavy lifting. We encourage readers to look through our list of sources and to dive into these fantastic articles, biographies, and collections of letters and conversations; they are the real deal.

For permission to reprint some of the material in this book, grateful acknowledgment is made to the following:

“Punch the Immortal Liar” from
Collected Poems
by Conrad Aiken, Oxford University Press. Copyright © 1970 by Conrad Aiken. Reprinted by permission of Brandt and Hochman Literary Agents, Inc.

Selection from “Cocktail Hour” as taken copyright © 1938 by Robert Benchley from
The Benchley Roundup: A Selection
by Nathaniel Benchley and drawings by Gluyas Williams. Copyright 1954 by Nathaniel Benchley, renewed © 1982 by Majorie B. Benchley. Copyright 1921, 1922, 1925, 1927, 1928 by Harper & Brothers. Copyright 1930, 1932, 1943, 1936, 1938 by Robert C. Benchley. Copyright 1949, 1950, 1953 by Gertrude D. Benchley. Copyright 1929, 1930 by Chicago Tribune–New York News Syndicate, Inc. Copyright 1929 by Bookman Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright 1930 by Liberty Magazine, Inc. Copyright 1930 by D.A.C. News, Inc. Copyright 1933 by The Hearst Corporation. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Excerpt from Dream Song #96 “Under the Table” from
The Dream Songs
by John Berryman. Copyright © 1969 by John Berryman. Copyright renewed 1997 by Kate Donahue Berryman. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

“The River,” from
Complete Poems of Hart Crane
by Hart Crane, edited by Marc Simon. Copyright 1933, 1958, 1966 by Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright © 1986 by Marc Simon. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Excerpt from “The Drinker” from
Collected Poems
by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 2003 by Harriet Lowell and Sheridan Lowell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

“Feast” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. From
Collected Poems,
HarperCollins. Copyright © 1923, 1951 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Elizabeth Barnett, literary executor.

Excerpt from “For the Year of the Insane” from
Live or Die
by Anne Sexton. Copyright © 1966 by Anne Sexton, renewed 1994 by Linda G. Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Creedos and Curios
copyright © 1951 by James Thurber. Copyright © renewed 1962 Rosemary A. Thurber. Reprinted by arrangement with Rosemary A. Thurber and The Barbara Hogenson Agency.

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