Drinkers With Writing Problems

By: Scott Thomas Anderson
  • Summary

  • Travel to places where drinking culture and creative legacies collide. This series reveals how the histories of beer, wine and spirits are linked to the work of trail-blazing writers. Roving on both sides of the Atlantic, a veteran journalist follows in the footsteps of a few famous scribblers – meeting cutting-edge bartenders, brewers, distillers, winemakers, novelists and booksellers along the way.
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Episodes
  • Dublin & Belfast
    Dec 14 2019

    In Dublin, the story of an I.R.A. insurgent-turned-writer leads to historic watering holes where the city’s oldest whiskeys flow. The man who first declared himself “a drinker with a writing problem” understood what distilled spirits mean to a culture’s identity; but it was his understanding of how to overcome a violent past that makes his words especially relevant. Meanwhile, in Belfast, a small but daring group of crime novelists are using timeless pubs and pints of Guinness to confront decades of real-life killings in their city.

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    48 mins
  • Edinburgh & Islay
    Jan 22 2020

    When a son of Scotland’s most-medieval city channeled its legacies of vice and bloodshed into popular tales, he took inspiration from the link between its shadowy pub culture and innovations in urban brewing. Following his path through Edinburgh’s old taverns reveals his influence on the city’s growing stable of mystery writers. Further off shore, Scotland’s famed whisky island is holding its own book festival, including inside its legendary distilleries. Between cold winds and drams of Scotch, visitors can see how this Hebridean isolation helped a writer in the 1940s conjure a vision of the future that’s become more haunting with every passing year. 

     

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    52 mins
  • The City of New Orleans
    Mar 25 2020

    Welcome to The City that Care Forgot, the place where an exiled teen once returned to study a spilling kaleidoscope of cocktails as he re-vamped gothic literature. In time, his connections to the South’s strangest river port helped trigger a national obsession with the true crime genre. Then, explore how gin-distilling went legit in the birthplace of Jazz – and how it fueled a wordsmith who channeled the lonely beauty of a night in New Orleans. Finally, venture down a rabbit hole in search of the Big Easy’s lost genius of comedy. Born and raised in the city, he haunted drinking dens, wrote a masterpiece and wandered the same streets as a presidential assassin.

     

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    1 hr and 6 mins

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