A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the
distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds
drinking in bars.
Rosie Schaap has always loved
bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing
bartenders, and especially the sometimes surprising but
always comforting company of regulars. Starting with her
misspent youth in the bar car of a regional railroad, where
at fifteen she told commuters’ fortunes in exchange for
beer, and continuing today as she slings cocktails at a
neighborhood joint in Brooklyn, Schaap has learned her way
around both sides of a bar and come to realize how powerful
the fellowship among regular patrons can be.
In
Drinking with Men, Schaap shares her unending quest
for the perfect local haunt, which takes her from a dive
outside Los Angeles to a Dublin pub full of poets, and from
small-town New England taverns to a character-filled bar in
Manhattan’s TriBeCa. Drinking alongside artists and expats,
ironworkers and soccer fanatics, she finds these places
offer a safe haven, a respite, and a place to feel most like
herself. In rich, colorful prose, Schaap brings to life
these seedy, warm, and wonderful rooms. Drinking with Men
is a love letter to the bars, pubs, and taverns that
have been Schaap’s refuge, and a celebration of the uniquely
civilizing source of community that is bar culture at its best
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