Litquake's Epicenter: Literary Salon with Rosie Schaap and Robin Ekiss February 19, 2013

Join Litquake at the Epicenter for the launch of New York Times "Drink" columnist Rosie Schaap's new memoir "Drinking with Men."

Rosie Schaap has always loved bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing bartenders, and especially the sometimes surprising but always comforting company of regulars. Starting with her misspent youth in the bar car of a regional railroad, where at fifteen she told commuters' fortunes in exchange for beer, and continuing today as she slings cocktails at a neighborhood joint in Brooklyn, Schaap has learned her way around both sides of a bar and come to realize how powerful the fellowship among regular patrons can be.

In "Drinking with Men," Schaap shares her unending quest for the perfect local haunt, which takes her from a dive outside Los Angeles to a Dublin pub full of poets, and from small-town New England taverns to a character-filled bar in Manhattan's TriBeCa.

Schaap brings a poet's touch to her memoir, which brims with insight and wisdom."
-Jimmy Breslin

Rosie Schaap has been a bartender, a fortune teller, a librarian at a paranormal society, an English teacher, an editor, a preacher, a community organizer, and a manager of homeless shelters. A contributor to "This American Life" and npr.org, she writes the "Drink" column for The New York Times Magazine. She was born in New York City and still lives there.

Robin Ekiss has been a waterslide attendant, AFL/CIO meat cutter, national burger cook-off finalist, TV commercial writer, and poet. She's also a contributing editor for ZYZZYVA and the founder of the Ladies Liquor Union, the first fully female intemperance league for ladies who love booze and books. Her book of poems, The Mansion of Happiness, won the Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize.

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