Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcohism, 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 through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All...

"The stories and poems in this collection address the physical and psychological trauma of sexual assault from a variety of perspectives and voices"-- The twenty-first century has brought unprecedented evidence of the prevalence of sexual abuse and assault. As the world begins to recognize the depraved and hypocritical actions of people (chiefly men) in power, people are raising their voices against a culture that has allow this behavior to continue....