Drinking with Men : A Memoir (Paperback)

from Ms.Spock

This book gave me a new appreciation for bar culture. It made me want to go out and spend hours talking with strangers, just for life-enriching variety than Rosie Schaap describes. But... the gender connection was not well fleshed out. A title that highlighted the coming of age story/memoir theme...

from SamSattler

I still have not gotten my head around the fact that Rosie Schaap, as she proclaims in the very first sentence of Drinking with Men, has spent more than 13,000 hours of her life inside bars. Think about that number for a minute. That is the equivalent of more eight-hour workdays than most people ...

from suniru

Drinking with Men extols the pleasures of the neighborhood bar. For the author it goes beyond pleasure and becomes a necessity. Within bars Schaap finds community and a safe, fun place to hang out. I know people seek out bars to drink..and the same bar to feel at home. Yes, I have seen Cheers, th...

from acornell

I heard Ms Schaap interviewed on NPR a few weeks ago and her take on life-- by the bars she frequents--seemed an interesting way to approach a memoir. She takes readers through her life from the bar car on the train as a teenager, to an Irish bar, college bar, grad school bar and various dives sh...

from vasquirrel

Drinking with Men is a collection of Schaap's recollections of her favorite drinking holes, beginning as a teenager in New York City and ending, um, in New York, with a notable absence of personal growth in between. Harsh? Maybe. Maybe I'm being especially hard on Schaap because I "get" everythin...