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A Drinking Life
As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy any writer’s most valuable tools: clarity, consciousness, memory.
The Maltese Falcon
See: Alex Vella Falco peregrinus brookei George Beurling Maltese Falcon (yacht) Maltese Falcon Society The Maltese Falcon (1931 film) The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) The Maltese Falcon (novel) Tony Drago Tribute of the Maltese Falcon Talk:The Maltese Falcon Help:Disambiguation Source:Wikipedia
Personal History
1997 autobiography of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham
A Romantic Education
Patricia Hampl‘s Memoir of Prague under socialism.
Hunger
Defined as a condition in which a person does not have the physical or financial capability to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs for a sustained period