Drinks & Humor

Beverage Writing

Editor and founder, AlcoholReviews.com (Since 1998)

My Google.com Restaurant Reviews

Book review: Iain Gately, Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol (New York: Gotham Books, 2008), The American, January 21, 2009.

“Whiskey Galore,” (article on the Kentucky Bourbon Festival) The American, October 8, 2008.

“Vodka in America,” and “Hard Cider,” in Andrew F. Smith, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).

“F. Sot Fitzgerald’s Booze Column,” New York Hangover, August 2000-January 2002.

“F. Sot Fitzgerald’s Booze Column,” New York Hangover, October 1999-July 2000.

“The Abbey,” “Alfama,” “Whiskey Ward,” and “Under the Volcano,” CitySearchNewYork, August 2000-November 2000.

Assorted Beverage Pieces, New York Press, January 1999-November 2000.

“F. Sot Fitzgerald’s Booze Column,” New York Hangover, February 1999-September 1999.

Humor Writing:

Co-Founder/Co-Editor/Writer, Bully Magazine, 1998-2003 (with Ken Wohlrob)

“Consolidating for a Better Tomorrow: Memorandum to Employees,” Bully Magazine, July 30, 1998.

“Come to Chicago…” (with Sean D. Huntington) The Plague, 1995.

“Fear, Loathing, Booze, But Mostly Fear in Atlantic City,” (with Sean D. Huntington) The Plague, 1995.

“Fear and Loathing in Las Quantas Physicas,” The Plague, 1994.

Other Writing

How to Play Chess booklet, (New York: Chess-In-the-Schools, 1996/1997).

My New Book

My Education Politics Book

Recent Reads

Fiction: John Grisham, The Associate (2009).

Non-Fiction: Todd Kliman, The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine (2010).

Non-Fiction: Kathryn A. Jacob, King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age (2010).

Non-Fiction: Philip Terzian, Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century (2010).

Fiction: David Lodge, Thinks (2001)

Non-Fiction: Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service, 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition (2010)

Non-Fiction: Christopher Buckley, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir (2009)

Non-Fiction: Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster (2007)

Fiction: John Le Carre A Most Wanted Man (2008)

Fiction: John Le Carre Our Game (1995)

Fiction: John Le Carre The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)

Fiction: Peter DeVries Into Your Tent I'll Creep (1971)

Fiction: Peter DeVries Peckham's Marbles (1986)

Fiction: Georges Simenon Three Beds in Manhattan (1964)

Fiction: Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day (1988)