Ian Thomson

A Trip to Echo Spring, by Olivia Laing – review

Left: a glassy-eyed Tennessee Williams in a bar in Turkey, c.1948. Right: the poet John Berryman at his desk, tumbler to hand. Getty Images | Shutterstock | iStock | Alamy
  • Comments

  • The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink

    Olivia Laing

    Canongate, pp. 340

Already a subscriber? Log in

This article is for subscribers only

Subscribe today and get a £30 Amazon gift card if you correctly predict the next US president.

Offer ends in ${days} days ${hours} hrs ${minutes} mins ${seconds} secs
  • The weekly edition delivered, via the Spectator app
  • Unlimited access to spectator.co.uk
  • Spectator newsletters and exclusive events
  • The chance to win a case of Pol Roger Champagne

Read next

Trending

Ross Clark

James Dyson isn’t helping farmers

If I were president of the National Farmers’ Union I know what my first task would be today: ring up Sir James Dyson and plead with him to keep his trap shut. It isn’t that Dyson, one of the few living Britons who has set up a manufacturing business of worldwide reputation, isn’t worth listening

More on alcoholism

Also by Ian Thomson

Latest

Comments

Join the debate today

Guess the new US president when you subscribe, and get a £30 Amazon gift card.

Already a subscriber? Log in