Olivia Laing Discusses ‘The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers & Drinking’ at Book Soup

In “The Trip to Echo Spring,” Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these writers were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work.