Trip to Echo Spring (Paperback)

from CarltonC

Olivia Laing recounts her travels around the United States, visiting places associated with six American authors (she apologises that they are all dead white males: Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway; Tennessee Williams; John Cheever; John Berryman; Raymond Carver) who all had problems with alcoh...

from akblanchard

I thought I would love The Trip to Echo Spring. It was billed as an examination of the dark secrets and self-destructive tendencies of six major 20th century authors (F.S. Fitzgerald, E. Hemingway, T. Williams, J. Berryman, J. Cheever and R. Carver), with an eye toward answering the eternal quest...

from amerynth

Olivia Liang's book "The Trip to Echo Spring: On writers and drinking" had a fantastic concept -- delving into the reasons why so many successful writers have a problem with alcohol -- but I didn't care for the way the book was written. Liang spends a lot of time talking about herself and her tra...

from etxgardener

I'm of two minds about this book. On the one hand, author Olivia Lang is an excellent writer and literary critic. On the other, if one is going to write a biography about alcoholic writers and how their alcoholism affected their work, I would hope that the author could refrain from writing long, ...

from kara.shamy

The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking was a totally fascinating read. I was spellbound by stories from the lives of the great writers whose relationship with drinking is discussed by author Olivia Laing in the book: John Berryman, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Erne...