Rosie Schaap writes the Drink column for the magazine. Her book, "Drinking With Men," came out last month.
Book I'm reading now:
I've really fallen for Belfast in the last few years (it's one of the great bar cities), and Northern Ireland has been on my mind lately. I recently finished David McKittrick and David McVea's "Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland," which I found balanced, humane and lucid. I've just started David Beresford's "Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike."
Last book I loved:
A recent sick day gave me just the excuse to revisit A. R. Ammons's 1994 book-length poem, "Garbage." When it first came out, I read it in one transformative, trancelike sitting. From the nervy title to the assertion early on that "garbage has to be the poem of our time" (what chutzpah!), to its many persuasive and excitingly unfashionable defenses of meaning, the poem spills forth in one great, urgent, unstoppable torrent. Almost 20 years on, it may not feel like the poem of our time, but its earthy, prophetic power has not abated.
Unread book on my bedside table that gnaws at my conscience:
"The Fixer," by Bernard Malamud. This was my mother's favorite novel. She gave me a copy when I was a teenager, and I suppose because I was a teenager and she was my mother, I wasn't interested. After she died in 2011, I pulled the book out of storage, but I still haven't cracked the spine. The second anniversary of her death is coming up; that's when I'll begin.
Three books in my field that I highly recommend:
Two drinkers' classics: "Everyday Drinking," by Kingsley Amis. No one writes about drink with greater humor or gusto than Amis. He showed that you could be a connoisseur without being a snob, and that connoisseurs are most serviceable when they're also thrillingly funny. Some of his ideas, recipes and pronouncements might seem dated to us now; all to the good, I say. And "The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks," by David A. Embury. Witty and opinionated, it's just the right primer for learning the essentials of cocktail-making.
And one that's not out till March (I read a galley): "The Drunken Botanist," by Amy Stewart. Stewart, the author of many entertaining works on the wonders of the natural world, reminds us here that all drinks start with plants. Fascinating, well researched and instructive — with appealing recipes too.
One book I would recommend to anyone:
"The Epicure's Lament," by Kate Christensen. I've given this book as a gift many times, and no one — from the most voracious readers I know to those who usually aren't too interested in novels — can resist its bracingly funny, smart, debauched charm. The protagonist, Hugo Whittier, is one of contemporary literature's great antiheroes. A man of huge appetites, he drinks too much, eats too much, smokes too much, has too much sex and thinks some outrageously terrible (and hilarious) thoughts. I couldn't love him, or the book, more. (Runners-up: Ciaran Carson's dreamlike, mesmerizing novel "Shamrock Tea," and David Winner's "Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football" — a great read even if you think you don't care about soccer or the Netherlands).
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