Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them?
In "The Trip to Echo Spring," Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol thr[...]

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts[...]

Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? This book takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the work and lives of six men.[...]