The Trip to Echo Spring

A “most beguiling and incisive” account of how writers in the grip of alcoholism created some of American literature’s greatest works ( New York Times ). A New York Times Notable Book of 2014 A Time Magazine Notable Book of 2014 In The Trip to Echo Spring , Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these wr