The author recounts his struggle with alcoholism and looks at the lives of other hard-drinking writers

Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers

Newlove, Donald

Biographies & Memoirs

McGraw=Hill

Analyzes the opening paragraphs of novels and short stories by writers ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, Proust, and Hemingway to Bellow, Doctorow, Marquez, and Mailer to offer inspiration for writers

First Paragraphs: Inspired Openings for Writers and Readers (Writers Library)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

St Martins Pr

Sweet Adversity

Avon/Books

Eternal Life: An Astral Love Story

Curranne Trueheart

DOUBLEDAY

Novelist Donald Newlove (1928-2021) contemplates how alcoholism has affected the lives and work of other writers, as well as himself.\n". . . a passionate blend: part autobiography, part confessional, part sketches of famous alcoholic writers and part sermon on the dangers of 'Drunkspeare' . . . its bird song and purling ravishment, bliss of self-love. . . . Like improvisational jazz . . . the Newlove sound is robust and swinging, the mark of a man who has discovered that his talent is intoxication enough." 
- R.Z. Sheppard, Time\n"Newlove's memoir makes The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson seem like a dull college weekend. It is, quite simply, terrifying, a tale to chill the blood of anyone who's ever hoisted a drink in a bar. It is a book with both literary merit and social value of the most redeeming sort imaginable." 
- Judson Hand, New York Daily News\n"Those Drinking Days ought to be read. It is an astonishing, moving memoir." 
- Joel Oppenheimer, New York Times

Arts & Literature

Tough Poets Press

Originally published in 1978, Sweet Adversity is two novels in one. Author Donald Newlove edited his critically acclaimed novels of jazz-playing alcoholic Siamese twins, Leo &amp; Theodore (1972) and The Drunks (1974), into a single volume for the release, explaining in his Author's Note that "the story loses scope and focus when halved into two books." Further, he stated that his original texts were "forever CANCELLED and do not represent my final thoughts about my twins." The New York Times called Leo &amp; Theodore "One of the most desperately funny books we've been given in a long time." And, of The Drunks, The New Yorker wrote, "A dazzling highwire act ... the sheer inventiveness and strength of his writing turn risk into triumph, drunken monologues into subtle satire, A.A. meetings into riveting dramas, and what in another writer might be bathos into brilliant comedy ... probably the most clear-eyed and moving—and certainly one of the most honest—books ever written about alcoholics."

Humor & Satire

Gathers striking descriptive passages from various works of literature, and explains why they are successful

Painted Paragraphs: Inspired Description for Writers and Readers (Handbooks for the Soul)

Reference

Henry Holt Co.

Gathers selections from novels, plays, and screenplays that contain the most convincing, entertaining, and memorable dialogue

Invented Voices: Inspired Dialogue for Writers and Readers (Handbooks for the Soul)

Newlove combines human insight, personal taste, and his own crackling talent as a writer to show writers how, with an inspired beginning, a work of genius can be created. The 75 selections here range from works as diverse as Dickens' Bleak House to more contemporary openings from Updike, Joyce, Welty, and Dinesen.

First Paragraphs: Inspired Openings for Writers and Readers

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

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Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers

First Paragraphs: Inspired Openings for Writers and Readers (Writers Library)

Sweet Adversity

Eternal Life: An Astral Love Story

Curranne Trueheart

Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers

Sweet Adversity

Painted Paragraphs: Inspired Description for Writers and Readers (Handbooks for the Soul)

Invented Voices: Inspired Dialogue for Writers and Readers (Handbooks for the Soul)

First Paragraphs: Inspired Openings for Writers and Readers