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MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- (Marketwired) -- 08/29/14 -- SEMAFO (TSX: SMF)(OMX: SMF)
As a result of the exercise of options, the total number of shares and votes in the Corporation has changed during August 2014 as follows.
The number of shares has increased by 696,250 common shares, and the total number of shares in the Corporation as of August 29, 2014 amounts to 277,449,185 common shares. The total number of votes in the Corporation has increased by 696,250 and amounts to 277,449,185. The Corporation's share capital as of August 29, 2014 amounts to approximately SEK 8,646,214,235.
The above information has been made public in accordance with the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act.
About SEMAFO
SEMAFO is a Canadian-based mining company with gold production and exploration activities in West Africa. The Corporation currently owns and operates the Mana Mine in Burkina Faso, which includes the high-grade satellite Siou and Fofina deposits. SEMAFO is committed to evolve in a conscientious manner through the responsible development of its Mana property. SEMAFO's strategic focus is to maximize shareholder value by effectively managing its existing assets as well as pursuing organic and strategic growth opportunities.
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This company's stock seems to be in a downward spiral. Anybody knows why. Is it going bankrupt or something we investors should be aware of? Is this time to jump ship as many insiders seem to be doing before the final collapse?Thoughts appreciated.
I thought the earthquake was the problem.
Stock is definitely doodoo
This stock is in the devil's hands.Corrupted MMs in cahoots with insiders.The SEC's been already alerted about all these shenanigans.
What a joke this stock has become.If we ever get above $12.40, I'm selling so fast it's gonna make your head spin. Of course, that may never happen with this pooch.
Yahoo boards are controlled by people who don't believe in the First Amendment of the Constitution of the US. No respect for the freedom of speech.
The Japan quake was the last nail in the coffin for this loser.It's going under.
It's down because it's GARBAGE!!!


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Free art to get out the vote
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Another tough week of making the final call on who receives helmet stickers after Saturday's games.
Oklahoma running back DeMarco Murray -- Rushed for 104 yards and two touchdowns and added a team-best four receptions for 63 yards and two more touchdowns to help Oklahoma claim a 58-35 victory over Kansas State.
The Missouri defense -- Hard to divide this award when so many players were worthy. The Tigers limited Colorado to 199 yards and 41 rushing yards in Missouri's 58-0 victory. It marked the first time that Colorado was shutout since losing 7-0 against Nebraska on Nov. 12, 1988 -- a span of 243 games that was the third-longest in the nation.
Texas Tech safety Darcel McBath -- Notched seven tackles and provided three interceptions during the third quarter to key Tech's 63-21 victory over Kansas.
Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell -- Passed for 386 yards and five touchdowns and ran for another score to lead Tech's victory over Kansas.
Texas wide receiver Jordan Shipley -- Produced a career-best 15 receptions for 168 yards and a touchdown and also added a 17-yard run on a reverse to spark the Longhorns' 28-24 triumph over Oklahoma State.


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Round-up: Oscar's doc rule change favors theatrical visibility
Credit where it's due to the Academy: when the high number of egregious omissions in this year's documnentary Oscar longlist (from "Senna" to "The Interrupters" to "Tabloid") made it clear that something in the system was broken, they didn't waste too much time attempting a fix. Whether their solution works remains to be seen: in future, any doc hoping to compete will need to be reviewed in either the New York Times or Los Angeles Times to qualify, spelling the end of phantom qualifying runs. Some are protesting that this discriminates unfairly against smaller works with sketchier distribution, though I don't think it's unreasonable to limit the competition to films that have, at some point, been made available to the public in a theatrical context: it's no different from how the general Oscar categories work, after all. Perhaps the Best Foreign Language Film award should go the same way? [New York Times]
Oscar-winning documentarian Michael Moore approves of the change, as does Steve James, the twice-snubbed director of "The Interrupters" and "Hoop Dreams." [IndieWire]
A superb piece by Tim Robey about why "The Iron Lady" switched composers -- from Clint Mansell to Thomas Newman -- and what it suggests about an uncertain film. [The Telegraph]
Speaking of soundtracks, Jim Emerson reflects on the experience not just of watching "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," but listening to it. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Critics unsold on Keira Knightley's performance in "A Dangerous Method" are "reveling in their own plainness of appearance, supercilious intellectualism and compulsions to express bitchiness." Uh, okay. [Women and Hollywood]
David Poland talks to the crafts artists behind "War Horse": Janusz Kaminski, Michael Kahn, Rick Carter and Lois Burwell. [Hot Blog]
An interview with "W.E." and "Brighton Rock" star Andrea Riseborough, who "may be the best and brightest actor of her generation." Shame about the films. [The Guardian]
Dan Kois on why "Captain America" was 2011's best comic-book movie... and why "Weekend" is great. An obvious segue. [Slate]
Tilda Swinton on "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and why winning an Oscar is nothoing more than "an amazing piece of luck." [Los Angeles Times]


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T.S.A. Expands Duties Beyond Airport Security
As hundreds of commuters emerged from Amtrak and commuter trains at Union Station on a recent morning, an armed squad of men and women dressed in bulletproof vests made their way through the crowds.
The squad was not with the Washington police department or Amtrak's police force, but was one of the Transportation Security Administration's Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads — VIPR teams for short — assigned to perform random security sweeps to prevent terrorist attacks at transportation hubs across the United States.
With little fanfare, the agency best known for airport screenings has vastly expanded its reach to sporting events, music festivals, rodeos, highway weigh stations and train terminals. Not everyone is happy.
Not everyone is happy? I would think not. All the elements are [quickly?] falling into place for the final move into a police state in the U.S.A. If I were living in America at the moment, I would be packing my bags
Maybe they are hiring all the high school dropouts. The numbers of those leaving school without a diploma is rising and they need a job you know. I think we are approaching a very challenging time here in the Peoples Republic of America.


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|I am... most unsatisfied.
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|I hate everybody!
|~ Father
Father is the main antagonist of Cartoon Network's Codename: Kids Next Door. He was a paternal figure who was an ultimate figure of authority, leader of the Delightful Children From Down the Lane, and the archenemy against the KND organization. His ultimate goal was to destroy the Kids Next Door so that adults could rule the world unopposed. Father's body was completely black with a red lining, which gave him a silhouette-like appearance with few other discernible features, the most notable being his bright yellow eyes.
Father was voiced by Maurice LaMarche, who also voiced Brain from Pinky and the Brain.
Father resided at the Delightful Mansion From Down The Lane with his children, the Delightful Children From Down the Lane, where he plotted to destroy the KND. Father usually sent other villains to carry out his work and rarely attacked the KND personally, and was thus much less often seen than the Delightful Children. Father was first seen in Operation: G.R.O.W.U.P., the Season 1 finale and the first 30 minute episode of the series.
It was revealed in Operation Z.E.R.O. that Father's true identity was Benedict Uno (also called Ben for short), the brother of Monty Uno and thus the uncle of Numbuh 1. The Delightful Children were also explained to be the result of a Delightfulization Chamber that blew a fuse when used on the kidnapped members of Sector Z.
As a child, Benedict Uno lived in fear of his own father and was obedient to him. When his brother Monty Uno decided to rebel against Grandfather, Benedict insisted that he would stand no chance against his power, and, as a result of his cowardice, did not join his brother in the uprising, which ultimately did prove successful.
Sometime between that incident and the present day of the series, Benedict took up his father's mantle as the king of evil and the ultimate oppressor of children, became a demonic being similar to Grandfather, and vowed to destroy the Kids Next Door.
At one point, Father created the Delightfulization Chamber, a device designed to turn any kid into a mindlessly obedient and perfectly behaved child. The first working Delightfulization Chamber was used on Sector Z. During the Delightfulization Process, the machine blew a fuse for reasons unknown, caused it to explode, and amplified its effects eleventy billion-fold, which created the Delightful Children From Down The Lane, who from then on, would be Father's "children" and most powerful allies.
Other notable minions of Father included the Ice Cream Men, the Six-Gum Gang and the Teen Ninjas, including his apprentice, Cree Lincoln, and his captain, Chad Dickson. Father did not directly control the majority of the KND's rogues gallery, but frequently employed the services of other villains who, while otherwise operating independently, were readily willing to serve him. Even the Delightful Children frequently appeared without Father. Father was occasionally seen attending the villain meetings of Mr. Boss, who regularly functioned as a leader of the series' lesser villains. In Operation: C.A.K.E.D F.O.U.R. and the comic story Operation: H.I.S.T.O.R.I.E., Father was said to be the head of a company called "Evil Adult Industries Inc." It was also implied that Father employed several children similar to the DCFDTL throughout the world, as shown in the Interesting Twins From Beneath The Mountain and the Rowdy Hooligans From Across the Square.
Father was first encountered by Sector V in Operation: G.R.O.W.U.P, in which he allowed his children to use the "Really Really Incredibly Destructive Machine" and was fought by the then-adult Numbuh 1 inside his mansion at the episode's climax.
Father's second major appearance was in Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S, the culmination of a story arc that consisted of several loosely-related episodes. Here, he activated a device which created a rapidly-expanding energy field that turned all KND operatives caught in it into animals. Father was defeated by Tommy Gilligan after the young boy decommissioned himself in order to gain immunity to the energy field, and subsequently used Father's DNA with the KND Code Module, made him a member of the Kids Next Door, and caused him to be turned into a panther. In Operation: Z.E.R.O., Father employed the help of nearly every villain in the KND universe and organized a massive attack on the KND in which he stole the Re-Commissioning Module and used it to revive Grandfather, intending for his father to destroy the KND for him and then rule the world alongside him. Instead, Grandfather called his son a failure and ordered him to leave. Toward the end of the movie, the newly-reawakened Numbuh 0 went to his brother for help and offered him a second chance to stand up to their father alongside him. Father ultimately accepted the offer, and during the confrontation with Grandfather, went into a violent rage against his abusive father, only to immediately and abruptly abandon the fight for no apparent reason, and said that he no longer cared about anyone or anything. At the end of the film, after Grandfather was defeated, Father was seen in his kitchen saying: "I hate everyone."
Father was also involved in some of the later and more elaborate "C.A.K.E.D." episodes, namely Operation C.A.K.E.D. F.O.U.R. and Operation C.A.K.E.D. F.I.V.E.. In the latter, his ancestors, the Annoyingly Cute Triplets Who Lived Upon The Hill and their mother who was Father's great-grandmother, were mentioned.
In Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S., the series finale, Father turned into a dragon after he lost his pipe during the episode's climax. At the end of the story, it was revealed that he was the person who was interviewing the grown up members of Sector V in the present day, but it was revealed that they later tricked him into thinking that Numbuh 1 was still in the Galactic KND high off in space since Numbuh 1 was revealed to have returned to Earth at that point.
Father was also a playable character in the game, Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion, where he served as one of the three major villains, alongside Mojo Jojo and Vilgax.
In most episodes Father appeared in, he usually appeared in a dark silhouette-like suit with flames coming out when he got angry. In Operation Z.E.R.O., however, when he appeared without his silhouette suit, he wore normal glasses, black pants, suspenders, dress shoes, a white dress shirt, and a red tie. He looked the same as his negative counterpart, Daddy.
In Operation Z.E.R.O., Father (as young Benedict Uno) was very cowardly and obedient, scared of his father (whom he called Pappy), Grandfather, and refused to disobey his orders. Following his footsteps, Benedict became Father, wore a silhouette suit, hated all children, and went as far to delightfulize the members of Sector Z into the Delightful Children Fron Down the Lane. He was considered to be the KND's worst enemy.
Father was, above all else, the cruelest of all the villains throughout the series, and attempted to destroy or take over the Kids Next Door Organization, who considered him as the greatest enemy that they've ever faced (aside from the re-Commissioned Grandfather: Who took over the world in less than a day and managed to zombify almost all members of the KND). He even once tried to cook children into the Delightful Children's Birthday Cake, which would have resulted in both mass murder and cannibalism.
Ironically, despite being an adult, Father was still shown to have child-like features, such as when he cuddled into a ball and rocked back and forth when Numbuh 362 threatened to feed him broccoli. He was also very ill-tempered and impatient, and burst into flames when angered.
PowersFather possesses several supernatural powers, which he has inherited from his demonic father. His offensive powers tend to become more active when he is angered. In addition, Father possesses these powers,
- Nigh-Immortality (this was seen by Grandfather, who has powers similar to Father, did not age ever since the 19th century & is nearly-impossible to kill or harm. It's possible that Father is also immortal).
- Extremely Powerful Pyrokinetic Abilities
- Superhuman Strength
- Levitation (seen in Operation: C.A.K.E.D F.I.V.E., Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S., and other episodes)
- Psionic Abilities (seen in Operation: C.A.K.E.D F.I.V.E.)
- Self-Replication (seen in Operation: I.T.)
- Shape-Shifting (seen in Operation: T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G., Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S. and Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.)
- In Operation: H.O.T.S.T.U.F.F., Numbuh 3 (although not a villain) who served as the episode's main antagonist (and even parodied Regan McNeil) appeared to have fire-like powers similar to Father although they were not even related. It was even notable that the latter's powers were a lot more powerful than him.
- Although Father was the Big Bad throughout the KND series, he served as the tertiary antagonist in Operation Z.E.R.O when he was outranked by the episode's true main villain.
- Father is very similar to Hades from the 1997 Disney Animated Adaptation of Hercules, Because they are both possessing similar pyrokinetic powers, they are both comedic and competent villains.
- Father is very similar to the Metal gear solid 5 villian "the man on fire" possessing similar pyrokinetic powers and near immortality. further similarities include the fact both characters are demonic humanids with a true human indentity and their general appearance both have yellow glowing eyes and lack a mouth. Also both have a weakness for water. Despite this however. The man on fire is believed to be a true demon Brough back from hell, however father is a simple human with demonic based powers.


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Hundreds of job seekers turn out to career fair
Hundreds of job seekers filled the Zem Zem Shrine Club on Thursday during the Pennsylvania Career Link of Erie County's career fair.
Charles Jordan, 53, of Erie, was among them. Jordan was laid off after seven years as a machine operator at GE Transportation.
"I have to get out here and work," he said. "I have a daughter I have to take care of."
Peggy Haight, 56, of Erie, was interested in another field -- health care -- but she, too, was looking for work. She has been out of work for almost a year after being laid off after 12 years at Independence Court of Erie.
"You don't know if you are not getting a job because of your age or they can pay the newer LPNs less money because we have more experience," Haight said.


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Skip to comments.Racism alarms Obama's backers
Posted on 05/13/2008 5:12:38 AM PDT by RU88
WASHINGTON - Danielle Ross was alone in an empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue Converses, stories from the trail on her mind. It was the day before Indiana's primary, and she had just been chased by dogs while canvassing in a Kokomo suburb. But that was not the worst thing to occur since she postponed her sophomore year at Middle Tennessee State University, in part to hopscotch America stumping for Barack Obama.
Here's the worst: In Muncie, a factory town in the east-central part of Indiana, Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for Obama at malls, on street corners and in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and they ran into "a horrible response," as Ross put it, a level of anti-black sentiment that none of them had anticipated.
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I bet if you polled the student population at "empty shoe" (MTSU), you would find that the chick in the lede to this story is about the only Obama supporter in the place.
I guess they are not talking about "Reverend Wright's" racism.
Well, it IS the only reason to not vote for Obama, right? (and before anyone can misinterpret) </sarc>
Oh, so Democrats are racists, huh??
Couldn't help but giggle.
Oh, you mean the racism of Obama's pal the Rev Wright?
Probably the two arthritic Pomeranians owned by an elderly lady who supports Hillary.
On the other hand, this article plays right into Hillary's strategy: "This man is not electable and will lose in November".
Boo hoo. You want racism or "anti-black sentiment"? Just mention the name "Clarence Thomas" to a leftist.
Yeah...the abject racism of Obama's mentor and his minions scares the hell out of me too...
PMS-NBC is telling whites that unless they vote for Nobama they are racists. Black racism, however, is given a pass. 95% of blacks voted for Nobama, but that's not racist - it's black tribal behavior (aka: "Black Community." Come November and the privacy of the voting booth, I believe that there will be a huge backlash on Nobama from the "White Community."
"Racism alarms Obama's backers."
I understand completely.
The deep and obsessive racism of many blacks "alarms" me too....
I think one of Senator Obama's closest supporters—Oprah Winfrey—will likely come to the rescue of the Senator. I don't think she's too thrilled about the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's rantings, either.
I will never vote for a black person who was raised to hate America during his or her early years, then taught to hate white people by his or her minister for the last twenty years.
...but I am the one who YOU are going to get.
What do you expect from "typical white people"?
Why are whites who wont vote for Obama racists when 90%+ of all blacks who are voting for Obama are just displaying their pride?
If the NO!bama campaigners want to find some real trouble, they should try campaigning around here!
READ B.O. Hussein's writings and Rants and You quickly find
B.O. Hussein is the primary Ringleader of RACISM! B.O. Hussein is trying to hide his on Extreme Racism over the many long past years. Remember, he Loves the new Pastor of "His" Chicago church. The new Pastor makes rev. Wright look main stream!!!!!
But I thought this was going to be a BIG democrat year!
Is this for real? I'm skeptical.
So, reactions against his "blackness" are billed now as "racism". Gee, whadda suprise, eh?
Ward Connerly championed CA's Prop 209's -- Repealing Preferential Quotas (Affirmative Action) involving state monies. The press beat the living snot out of him, and the black groups called him an Uncle Tom. Cartoonists portrayed him wearing a white KKK hood. Ya think the same squawking now about "racism" encountered against BO were fighting off the grotesque treatment of Ward Connerly? Eh?
Obama is billed and promoted as "black", and his supporters are shocked, I tell you *shocked* that people are responding DIRECTLY to EXACTLY the issue his handlers have promoted. And now wanna cry crocadile tears over "all that racism goin on..."
Fer cryin' out loud! BO hasn't really supplied anything of substance for people to respond to on ISSUES. They have been told repeatedly it's all about our "First Black President".
The BO Platform (of Race) is equivalent to a "When Did you Stop Beating Your Wife" set-up.
And this coverage of "reactions" to the "Blackness of Obama" campaign would be funny if it weren't so pathetically stupid and campaign serving.
Made as a statement of fact from the "objective" reporter.
That is correct! Racism was never interjected into the campaign until BO's spiritual advisor Rev.Wright brought it in and BO didn't reject it outright. It festered into a 'blacks blame whitey' for everything bad that ever happened to themselves. The chickens have come home to roost and it's way past time.
Exactly. They are phoning, canvassing PRIMARY voters.
His rantings are probably what caused her to quit going to that church. If the public found out, she would lose the ratings to the boatload of non-black viewers. She has been awfully silent lately, which makes me think she is second guessing her stumping for Obama with the Wright scandal.
Hillary's people are still at it. It's a "two-fer": They sabotage Obama, and lay the blame on America being too racist to be ready for a black President yet
Is BO a smoker?
Way back when it was apparent that Obambi was a contender, I tried to get any lib that I knew to make this bet with me, even with odds.
If Obama is the nominee, the dhimmirats will run on the idea that anyone that doesn't support him is a racist.
No takers. They know who they are.
Obama is black? What next, Kerry served in Vietnam?
You'll not hear more disgust or contempt than you will from a leftist victim black person when you mention that you would vote for someone like Clarence Thomas for president.
Always a trusty left-wing Washington Post calling card - the dark fear of racists, Nazis, so-called extremist Christians, etc... just lurking around the corner to upset their Golden Boy Obama.
False claims of racism are more common than the real thing. Especially in a case like this where there is no way to verify.
Now you're just making stuff up!
Huh? He did? Really?
Who knew?
There was a funny op-ed by some Obama campaign person in the WSJ the other day.
One of the points that he made was that Obama clearly holds opposite views to Rev Wright.
Oh... had to stop right there and laugh.
And where is the alarm over Barry's 20 year relationship with a racist?
It ain't the racism, baby, it's that other "ism" that worries me: socialism.
Ooooo boy... now you've done it.
Heck, the DUmmies are already claiming that calling him "Barry" was racist.
If they see someone comparing him to a big eared cartoon monkey, their heads will explode.
When massive intercontinental nuclear war breaks out, this is the kind of reporter that will start the story with "83 year old widow Ms. Georgia Halbrun took her black pomeranian Winkles for a walk down 4th Street as she has every morning for the last 15 years ..."
Now they know what it feels like to be a Republican in a country controlled by a left-wing moonbat liberal media.
Between this and the West VA story earlier, the template is in place. Anyone not supporting BHO is a racist.
This year may get very, very ugly in America.
They have got it pretty good because any criticism of Barry will be called racism.
There are racists in our country. It's a fact. The rants of these fools in the MSNBC report are as ugly and evil as the ones by Jeremiah Wright and his ilk.
I don't give a damn what color Obama is- I believe he's a marxist and that is why he's not suited to be our president.
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London-based Laing (To the River) takes us on a trip across the United States in this unique collection of literary biographies, stopping and observing locations relevant to the lives of the authors she is investigating. Ambitiously immersed in the careers of six revered and often idolized writers, including novelist John Cheever (The Stories of John Cheever) and short story writer Raymond Carver (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love), Laing uses the authors' alcohol addiction as the linchpin that unifies their strange connectedness to one another. Laing, who grew up in an alcoholic family herself, mixes into her study an intimate and knowledgeable understanding of the chemistry of alcohol, its impact on one's thinking, and the mystique of its side effects. The culmination is a brightened awareness not only of the lives of the writers discussed but of their works, relationships, and worldviews. VERDICT A funny, tragic, and insightful journey for anyone who has read F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender Is the Night), Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time), Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie), or John Berryman (The Dream Songs); prepare to be smitten with this fresh offering. Those unfamiliar with these writers will want to read their works. [See Prepub Alert, 7/22/13.]—Russell Miller, Prescott P.L., AZ
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In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia 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, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast. Often, they did their drinking together: Hemingway and Fitzgerald ricocheting through the cafés of Paris in the 1920s; Carver and Cheever speeding to the liquor store in Iowa in the icy winter of 1973.
Olivia Laing grew up in an alcoholic family herself. One spring, wanting to make sense of this ferocious, entangling disease, she took a journey across America that plunged her into the heart of these overlapping lives. As she travels from Cheever's New York to Williams's New Orleans, and from Hemingway's Key West to Carver's Port Angeles, she pieces together a topographical map of alcoholism, from the horrors of addiction to the miraculous possibilities of recovery.
Beautiful, captivating, and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.
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London-based Laing (To the River) takes us on a trip across the United States in this unique collection of literary biographies, stopping and observing locations relevant to the lives of the authors she is investigating. Ambitiously immersed in the careers of six revered and often idolized writers, including novelist John Cheever (The Stories of John Cheever) and short story writer Raymond Carver (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love), Laing uses the authors' alcohol addiction as the linchpin that unifies their strange connectedness to one another. Laing, who grew up in an alcoholic family herself, mixes into her study an intimate and knowledgeable understanding of the chemistry of alcohol, its impact on one's thinking, and the mystique of its side effects. The culmination is a brightened awareness not only of the lives of the writers discussed but of their works, relationships, and worldviews. VERDICT A funny, tragic, and insightful journey for anyone who has read F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender Is the Night), Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time), Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie), or John Berryman (The Dream Songs); prepare to be smitten with this fresh offering. Those unfamiliar with these writers will want to read their works. [See Prepub Alert, 7/22/13.]—Russell Miller, Prescott P.L., AZ
The tortured relationship between literary lions and their liquor illuminates the obscure terrain of psychology and art in this searching biographical meditation. Critic and travel writer Laing (To the River) explores the writing and drinking careers of six heavy-hitting American masters—Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver—while visiting their haunts, from Key West to Puget Sound. Incorporating insights from neuroscience, rehab doctrine, and her family's alcoholic history, Laing reviews the excuses each writer offered for his alcoholism—anxiety, shyness, childhood trauma, hidden homosexuality, creative lubrication, the world's cruelty—and totals the costs: suicide, wrecked homes, lurid benders, and diminished output. (Williams's addled late plays may exhibit alcohol-induced "aphasia," says Laing.) The book's heart is Laing's astute analysis of the pervasive presence and meaning of drink in the writers' texts, and its reflection of the writers' struggles to shape—and escape—reality. Laing explores this rich topic through an unusual mix of biographical research, astute literary interpretation, and wonderfully atmospheric travelogue; she forthrightly calls out her subjects on their alcoholic evasions and self-deceptions while maintaining a clear-eyed sympathy for their travails. The result is a fine study of a human frailty through the eyes of its most perceptive victims. Photos. Agent: P.J. Mark, Janklow & Nesbit. (Jan.)
I'm sorry I've finished this wonderful book because I feel I've been talking to a wise friend. I've been trying to work out exactly how Olivia Laing drew me in, because I hardly drink myself and have no particular attachment to the group of writers whose trials she describes. I think the tone is beautifully modulated, knowledgeable yet intimate, and she can evoke a state of mind as gracefully as she evokes a landscape....I think this is a book for all writers or would-be writers, whether succeeding or failing, whether standing on their feet or flat on the pavement....It's one of the best books I've read about the creative uses of adversity: frightening but perversely inspiring.
"Most beguiling and incisive." The New York Times
"[A] charming and gusto-driven look at the alcoholic insanity of six famous writers…There is much to learn from Laing's supple scholarship--and much to enjoy, too." Lawrence Osborne, The New York Times Book Review
"Exquisite . . . Laing, wisely, doesn't reach any one-size-fits-all conclusions about the bond between the pen and the bottle . . . A marvelous writer." Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
"Laing dives deep, plummeting into some of her subjects' darkest impulses . . . The result is a multilayered biography that reads quick as fiction, and is teeming with fantastically melancholy details of the writers we thought we knew." Lauren Viera, Chicago Tribune
"[An] eccentric, impassioned, belle-lettristic, graceful and haunted book . . . [Laing's] story has a rambling, daydream quality." The Wall Street Journal
"The Trip to Echo Spring is a rewarding book to wend your way through even if the writers Laing focuses on Cheever, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Raymond Carver and the American poet John Berryman--aren't among your particular favorites. Laing writes a fluid, fertile nonfiction... Although Laing isn't an alcoholic herself, she alludes to several adult relationships blighted by the disease, and her second-hand understanding of it is manifestly detailed and deep....Another powerful draw of The Trip to Echo Spring is the flashing imagination of Laing's literary criticism....A wondrously rewarding book." Laura Miller, Salon
"Laing's writing is beautiful, her insights frequently surprising and powerful. The book's greatest virtue, however, is that it positively swells with empathy." Rosie Schaap, Slate
"Olivia Laing's book is an exploration of alcoholism in six 20th-century American writers...that dazzles in both the scope of its ambition and the depths it reaches in analyzing its subjects. Laing, through the lens of extensive research both into the writer's biographies and into literature about alcoholism as a disease, paints these writers with a brush that renders them in new light....While there may be more uplifting books about writing and writers, few present the reader with such sobering realities about the downside to all those romantic, drunken nights in Paris or Key West." Interview
"Olivia Laing emerges as a kind of British Susan Orlean, combining nonfiction narrative, travel writing, literary criticism and a touch of memoir in a personable style....Her descriptions of the landscape she sees, the conversations she overhears and the people she runs into are sparkling....Without building to a specific point or climax, Laing keeps you on board through her journey...Your head filled with the questions and answers so interestingly raised here, you will want to take a long look at both." Newsday
"The Trip to Echo Spring...contains astute observations about addiction....Laing provides a remarkably cogent explanation of alcohol's effects on the brain and emotions." Tampa Bay Times
"The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing's remarkable book about six alcoholic American writers, reminds me of the overhead projections we watched in classrooms before PowerPoint came along, in which several transparent sheets were artfully lined up atop each other to produce a complex document....I've read many words about the alcoholism of literary writers, and many more words about the 12 Step model of addiction and recovery. But until "Echo Spring," I'd never read a writer who bridged both worlds with such intelligence, grace and thoughtfulness." Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
"A funny, tragic, and insightful journey for anyone who has read F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, or John Berryman; prepare to be smitten with this fresh offering. Those unfamiliar with these writers will want to read their works." Library Journal (starred review)
"Laing, with shimmering detail and arresting insights, presents a beautifully elucidating and moving group portrait of writers enslaved by drink and redeemed by 'the capacity of literature to somehow...make one feel less flinchingly alone." Booklist (starred review)
"The tortured relationship between literary lions and their liquor illuminates the obscure terrain of psychology and art in this searching biographical medidation....Laing's astute analysis of the pervasive presence and meaning of drink in the writers' texts, and its reflection of the writers' struggle to shape--and escape--reality...A fine study of human frailty through the eyes of its most perceptive victims" Publishers Weekly (starred)
"A provocative, evocative blend of memoir, literary history and lyrical travel writing." Kirkus Reviews
"I'm sorry I've finished this wonderful book because I feel I've been talking to a wise friend. I've been trying to work out exactly how Olivia Laing drew me in, because I hardly drink myself and have no particular attachment to the group of writers whose trials she describes. I think the tone is beautifully modulated, knowledgeable yet intimate, and she can evoke a state of mind as gracefully as she evokes a landscape....I think this is a book for all writers or would-be writers, whether succeeding or failing, whether standing on their feet or flat on the pavement....It's one of the best books I've read about the creative uses of adversity: frightening but perversely inspiring." Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize–winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
"I loved The Trip to Echo Spring. It's a beautiful book that has stayed with me in a profound way." Nick Cave
"The Trip to Echo Spring...thank God, never reductively answers the question [why writers drink] but thoughtfully explores it through an examination of the lives and careers of 'Tennessee Williams, John Cheever and Raymond Carver among others." Jay McInerney
"A beguiling, beautifully written journey in search of six famous literary drunks. What gives her book its brilliance and originality...[is] the quality of its writing." The Sunday Times (London)
"The beauty of Laing's book lies not just in the poetry of her prose, the rich array of images, and literary allusions to her chosen subjects evoked during her transcontinental ghost-hunt, but intriguing links she makes to a wider literary landscape." The Independent (London)
"Laing's analysis of the complex addiction is consistently shrewd. But what makes The Trip to Echo Spring truly worthwhile is that she, like those she writes about, is a terrific writer." The Times (London)
"This book is a triumphant exercise in creative reading in which diary entries, letters, poems, stories and plays are woven together to explore deep, interconnected themes of dependence, denial and self-destructiveness. It is a testimony to this book's compelling power that having finished it, I immediately wanted to read it again." Scotland on Sunday
"Like a night out with an academically-inclined Elizabeth Taylor or Ava Gardner. Sodden, surprising, riotous, and crazily up and down. Welsh puritan that I am, I loved it." Daily Mail
"The book's subtitle, Why Writers Drink, undersells her achievement.…[Laing has produced] a nuanced portrait--via biography, memoir, analysis--of the urge of the hyperarticulate to get raving drunk." New Statesman (London)
"It's deliciously evocative, Laing's melancholic and lyrical style conjuring the location, before effortlessly segueing into medical facts about alcoholism, the effects on the lives of each writer, and well-chosen passages from their work. This is a highly accomplished book, and highly recommended." List (London)
"Matches smart textual analysis of 20th-century greats with down-and-dirty ferreting....A superb idea, exceptionally well executed." Metro (London)
What can we learn from the sodden stories of six gifted but alcoholic writers? Much--and maybe not enough. Freelance journalist Laing, (To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface, 2011), who has a history of alcoholism in her own family, provides an enlightening look at the struggles of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, John Berryman and Raymond Carver--six men (she explains why she included no women) whose careers and lives were shaken and shortened by their addiction to alcohol. She notes that she selected them, among other things, because their lives intersected in places. Laing, who lives in England, decided to visit key sites in these writers' lives and to do so, as much as possible, by train. Throughout, she comments--sometimes quite eloquently--about the scenery in and outside her rail car. Laing also evinces great familiarity with the principal texts of her writers, including their published and unpublished journals, letters and other relevant documents. She also instructs us about the effects of alcohol on the brain (including the devastating destruction of memory) and the rest of the body, as well as the social behavior of heavy drinkers, and she sketches the history and strategies of Alcoholics Anonymous and of other ways to battle the disease. Since we know the sorry fates of all these writers, there is an almost unbearable poignancy about Laing's journey to sites of meltdowns and suicides. She wanders into bars the writers had frequented, looks at their residences in New York, New Orleans, Key West, Port Angeles and elsewhere, and continually tries to imagine the men in these settings. She ends in kind of a hard place: with the axiomatic message that alcoholics need to take charge of their lives and just stop. These six guys didn't find that too easy. A provocative, evocative blend of memoir, literary history and lyrical travel writing.
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HERE'S A THING. IOWA CITY, 1973. Two men in a car, a Ford Falcon convertible that's seen better days. It's winter, the kind of cold that hurts bones and lungs, that reddens knuckles, makes noses run. If you could, by some devoted act of seeing, crane in through the window as they rattle by, you'd see the older man, the one in the passenger seat, has forgotten to put on his socks. He's wearing penny loafers on bare feet, oblivious to the cold, like a prep school boy on a summer jaunt. In fact you could mistake him for a boy: slight, in Brooks Brothers tweeds and flannel trousers, his hair immaculately combed. Only his face betrays him, collapsed into hangdog folds.
The other man is bigger, burlier, thirty-five. Sideburns, bad teeth, a ragged sweater open at the elbow. It's not quite nine a.m. They turn off the highway and pull into the parking lot of the state liquor store. The clerk's out front, keys glinting in his hand. Seeing him, the man in the passenger seat yanks the door and lurches out, never mind the car's still moving. 'By the time I got inside the store,' the other man will write, a long time later, 'he was already at the checkout stand with half a gallon of Scotch.'
They drive away, passing the bottle back and forth. Within a few hours they'll be back at the University of Iowa, swaying eloquently in front of their respective classes. Both are, as if it isn't obvious, in deep trouble with alcohol. Both are also writers, one very well known, the other just cresting into success.
John Cheever, the older man, is the author of three novels, The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal and Bullet Park, as well as some of the most miraculous and distinctive stories ever written. He's sixty-one. Back in May, he was rushed to hospital with dilated cardiomyopathy, testament to the almighty havoc alcohol wreaks upon the heart. After three days in the Intensive Care Unit he developed delirium tremens, becoming so violently disturbed he had to be secured with a leather straitjacket. The job at Iowa – a semester teaching at the famous Writers' Workshop – must have seemed like a passport to a better life, though it isn't quite panning out that way. For various reasons he's left his family behind, living like a bachelor in a single room at the Iowa House Hotel.
Raymond Carver, the younger man, has also just joined the faculty. His room is identical to Cheever's, and immediately beneath it. The same painting hangs on both their walls. He's come alone too, leaving his wife and teenaged children in California. All his life he's wanted to be a writer, and all his life he's felt circumstance set hard against him. The drinking's been going on for a long while, but despite its depredations he's managed to produce two volumes of poetry and to build up quite a clutch of stories, many of them published in little magazines.
At first glance, the two men seem polar opposites. Cheever looks and sounds every inch the moneyed Wasp, though closer acquaintance reveals this to be a complex kind of subterfuge. Carver, on the other hand, is a millworker's son from Clatskanie, Oregon, who spent years supporting his writing with menial jobs as a janitor, a stockboy and a cleaner.
They met on the evening of 30 August 1973. Cheever knocked on the door of room 240, holding out a glass and announcing, according to Jon Jackson, a student who was present at the time: 'Pardon me. I'm John Cheever. Could I borrow some Scotch?' Carver, elated to meet one of his heroes, stutteringly held out a vast bottle of Smirnoff. Cheever accepted a slug, though he turned his nose up at the embellishments of ice or juice.
Sensing a dual intersection of interests, the two men immediately bonded. They spent much of their time together in the Mill bar, which only served beer, talking about literature and women. Twice a week they drove out in Carver's Falcon to the liquor store for Scotch, which they drank in Cheever's room. 'He and I did nothing but drink,' Carver reported later, in the Paris Review. 'I mean, we met our classes in a manner of speaking, but the entire time we were there … I don't think either of us ever took the covers off our typewriters.'
What's odd about this wasteful year, not to mention all the disasters that followed on its heels, is that Cheever predicted it, in a manner of speaking. A decade earlier, he wrote a short story published in the New Yorker on 18 July 1964. 'The Swimmer' is about alcohol and what it can do to a man; how conclusively it can wipe out a life. It begins with a characteristically Cheeverish line: 'It was one of those mid-summer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, "I drank too much last night."'
One of those people is Neddy Merrill, a slender, boyish man with an attractive air of vitality about him. Trotting out into the sunshine for a morning dip in his host's pool, he's struck by a delightful idea: that he will make his way home by way of a 'string of swimming pools, that quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the county'. He names this secret road of mixed waters Lucinda, in honour of his wife. But there's another liquid path he also follows: a chain of drinks taken on neighbours' terraces and yards, and it's this more perilous route that leads him downwards by degrees to the story's uncanny and tragic end.
High on his marvellous plan, Neddy swims through the gardens of the Grahams and the Hammers, the Lears, the Howlands, the Crosscups and the Bunkers. As he passes on his self-appointed way he's plied with gin by 'natives' – whose customs, he thinks to himself disingenuously, 'would have to be handled with diplomacy if he was ever going to reach his destination'. The next house he reaches is deserted, and after he's crossed the pool he slips into the gazebo and pours himself a drink: his fourth, he calculates vaguely, or perhaps his fifth. A great citadel of cumulus has been building all day, and now the storm breaks, a quick paradiddle of rain in the oaks followed by the pleasurable smell of cordite.
Neddy likes storms, but something about this downpour changes the tenor of his day. Sheltering in the gazebo, he notices a Japanese lantern that Mrs. Levy bought in Kyoto 'the year before last, or was it the year before that?' Anyone can lose their footing in time, can misstep a beat or two of chronology. But then there's another queer flicker in temporality. The rain has stripped the maple, and the red and yellow leaves lie scattered on the grass. It's midsummer, Neddy thinks robustly, and so the tree must simply be blighted, but this sign of autumn gives him an unpleasant shot of melancholy.
The sense of foreclosure deepens. At the Lindleys, the jumping ring is overgrown and the horses seem to have been sold. Worse, the Welchers' pool has been drained. The Lucinda, that magical, abundant river, has run dry. Neddy is staggered, and begins seriously to doubt his command of time. 'Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?' He pulls himself together though, rallying enough to cross Route 424, a portage more effortful and exposing than he'd expected.
Next he braves the public baths, with their whistles and murkish water. No pleasure there, but he's soon up and out, clambering through the woods of the Halloran estate towards the dark, dazzled gold of their springfed pool. But here comes another offbeat, a sense that the world Neddy is travelling through is somehow strange to him, or he to it. Mrs. Halloran asks solicitously about his poor children, muttering something too about the loss of his house. Then, as he walks away, Neddy notices his shorts are hanging around his waist. Is it possible, he wonders, that he's lost weight over the course of a single afternoon? Time is slopping around like gin in a glass. It's still emphatically the same day, but now the warmth of midsummer has dissipated and the smell of wood smoke is articulate in the air.
From the Hallorans Neddy travels to their daughter's house, hoping to beg a glass of whiskey. Helen greets him warmly enough, but her house is dry and has been for three years. Bewildered, chilled to the bone, he heaves his way across the pool and cuts through the fields to the Biswangers. From the roar of voices it's evident a party is in full swing. He wanders in, still almost naked. But now, mysteriously, it's twilight, and the water on the pool has 'a wintry gleam'. Mrs. Biswanger, who has angled for Neddy as a guest for years, has apparently suffered some change of heart. She greets him rudely, and when his back is turned can be heard saying: 'They went for broke overnight – nothing but income – and he showed up drunk one Sunday and asked us to loan him five thousand dollars.' Then the bartender rebuffs him, confirming his sneaking sense that some social loss of grace has occurred, and been remembered and recorded.
Struggling on, he passes next through the garden of a former mistress, though he can't remember precisely when or in what mood he broke it off. She isn't wholly pleased to see him either, and is likewise fretful about the possibility that he wants money. Leaving, he catches on the cooling air an autumnal smell, not quite placeable but 'strong as gas'. Marigolds? Chrysanthemums? Looking up, he sees the winter constellations have taken up their stations in the night sky. Flooded with uncertainty, he begins, for the first time in his life, to cry.
There are only two more pools to go. He flails and gasps through the final laps before walking in damp trunks up the drive to his own house. But now the hints about a downturn in his fortunes begin to clarify, for the lights are out, the doors are locked, the rooms are empty and nobody, it is clear, has lived here for a long while.
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'The Swimmer' had come into my mind because I was plummeting through the sky above New York, where the land breaks apart in a clutter of islands and marshes. There are some subjects one can't address at home, and so at the beginning of the year I'd left England for America, a country almost entirely unknown to me. I wanted time to think, and what I wanted to think about was alcohol. I'd spent the winter upcountry, in a cottage in New Hampshire, and now it was spring and I was moving south.
Last time I'd passed over here the earth was white all the way up to the Arctic, and the Connecticut River turned through dark bars of forest frozen the metallic blue-grey of the barrel of a gun. Now the ice had melted, and the whole landscape was ablaze. It reminded me of Cheever's line – that to live 'in a world so generously supplied with water seemed like a clemency, a beneficence'.
'The Swimmer', which I would judge among the finest stories ever written, catches in its strange compressions the full arc of an alcoholic's life and it was that same dark trajectory I wanted to pursue. I wanted to know what made a person drink and what it did to them. More specifically I wanted to know why writers drink, and what effect this stew of spirits has had upon the body of literature itself.
John Cheever and Raymond Carver are hardly the only writers whose lives were made desolate by alcohol. Alongside them come Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Jean Rhys, Patricia Highsmith, Truman Capote, Dylan Thomas, Marguerite Duras, Hart Crane, John Berryman, Jack London, Elizabeth Bishop, Raymond Chandler – the list staggers on. As Lewis Hyde observes in his essay 'Alcohol and Poetry', 'four of the six Americans who have won the Nobel Prize for literature were alcoholic. About half of our alcoholic writers eventually killed themselves.'
Alcoholism is not a simple condition to define. According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, its essential features are 'impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial'. In 1980, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders dropped the term 'alcoholism' entirely, replacing it with two interrelated disorders: alcohol abuse (defined as 'repeated use despite recurrent adverse consequences') and alcohol dependence (defined as 'alcohol abuse combined with tolerance, withdrawal and an uncontrollable drive to drink').
As to what causes it, the jury remains out. In fact, under the heading 'Etiology', my old 1992 Merck Manual announces baldly: 'The cause of alcoholism is unknown.' In the intervening years there have been thousands of research programmes and academic studies, and yet the consensus remains that alcoholism is caused by some mysterious constellation of factors, among them personality traits, early life experiences, societal influences, genetic predisposition and abnormal chemistry of the brain. Listing these possible causes, the current edition of the Merck Manual concludes, a little dispiritedly: 'However, such generalizations should not obscure the fact that alcohol use disorders can occur in anyone, regardless of their age, sex, background, ethnicity, or social situation.'
Unsurprisingly, the theories writers tend to offer lean more towards the symbolic than the sociological or scientific. Discussing Poe, Baudelaire once commented that alcohol had become a weapon 'to kill something inside himself, a worm that would not die'. In his introduction to Recovery, the posthumously published novel of the poet John Berryman, Saul Bellow observed: 'Inspiration contained a death threat. He would, as he wrote the things he had waited and prayed for, fall apart. Drink was a stabiliser. It somewhat reduced the fatal intensity.'
There's something about these answers and the mixed motives they reveal that seems to catch at a deeper and more resonant aspect of alcohol addiction than the socio-genetic explanations that are in currency today. It was for this reason that I wanted to look at writers who drank, though God knows there's barely a section of our society that's immune to alcohol's lures. After all, it's they who, by their very nature, describe the affliction best. Often they've written about their experiences or those of their contemporaries, either transposed into fiction, or in the letters, memoirs and diaries they've used to mythologise or interrogate their lives.
As I began to read through these rafts of papers, I realised something else. These men and women were connected, both physically and by a series of repeating patterns. They were each other's friends and allies, each other's mentors, students and inspirations. In addition to Raymond Carver and John Cheever in Iowa, there were other drinking partnerships, other vexed allegiances. Hemingway and Fitzgerald tippled together in the cafés of 1920s Paris, while the poet John Berryman was the first person at Dylan Thomas's bedside when he died.
Then there were the echoes. I'd grown most interested in six male writers, whose experiences seemed to dovetail and mirror each other. (There were many women writers I could have chosen too, but for reasons that will become apparent their stories came too close to home.) Most of this six had – or saw themselves as having – that most Freudian of pairings, an overbearing mother and a weak father. All were tormented by self-hatred and a sense of inadequacy. Three were profoundly promiscuous, and almost all experienced conflict and dissatisfaction with regard to their sexuality. Most died in middle age, and the deaths that weren't suicides tended to be directly related to the years of hard and hectic living. At times, all tried in varying degrees to give up alcohol, but only two succeeded, late in life, in becoming permanently dry.
These sound like tragic lives, the lives of wastrels or dissolutes, and yet these six men – F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, John Berryman and Raymond Carver – produced between them some of the most beautiful writing this world has ever seen. As Jay McInerney once commented of Cheever: 'There have been thousands of sexually conflicted alcoholics, but only one of them wrote "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" and "The Sorrows of Gin".'
If I stopped a minute, I could picture each of them in turn. I saw Fitzgerald in a Guards tie, his blond hair slicked back, quietly certain about the merits of The Great Gatsby: a kind man, when he wasn't whisking you into a waltz or boiling your watch up in a pot of soup. Ernest Hemingway I always pictured at the helm of a boat, or out hunting in the clean upland air, entirely focused on the task at hand. And then later, at his desk in glasses, making up the Michigan of the Nick Adams stories, making up corridas and cities, trout streams and battlefields, a world you can almost smell.
Tennessee Williams I saw in Ray-Bans and safari shorts, sitting unobtrusively at the rehearsal of one of his own plays: A Streetcar Named Desire, say, or Suddenly Last Summer. It's not locked yet, and so he fixes sections on demand, braying his donkey's laugh at all the saddest lines. Cheever I liked to think of riding a bicycle, a habit he took up late in life, and Carver I always imagined with a cigarette, big-shouldered but walking softly. And then there was John Berryman, the donnish poet and professor, light gleaming on his glasses, his beard enormous, standing in front of a class at Princeton or the University of Minnesota, reading Lycidas and making the whole room see how marvellous it was.
There have been many books and articles that revel in describing exactly how grotesque and shameful the behaviour of alcoholic writers can be. That wasn't my intention. What I wanted was to discover how each of these men – and, along the way, some of the many others who'd suffered from the disease – experienced and thought about their addiction. If anything, it was an expression of my faith in literature, and its power to map the more difficult regions of human experience and knowledge.
As to the origins of my interest, I might as well admit I grew up in an alcoholic family myself. Between the ages of eight and eleven I lived in a house under the rule of alcohol, and the effects of that period have stayed with me ever since. Reading Tennessee Williams's play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at seventeen was the first time I found the behaviour I'd grown up amid not only named and delineated but actively confronted. From that moment on I was preoccupied by what writers had to say about alcohol and its effects. If I had any hope of making sense of alcoholics – and my life as an adult seemed just as full of them – it would be by investigating the residue they'd left behind in books.
There was a line from Cat in particular that had stayed with me for years. Brick, the drunkard, has been summoned by his father. Big Daddy is on a talking jag and after a while Brick asks for his crutch. 'Where you goin'?' Big Daddy asks, and Brick replies: 'I'm takin' a little short trip to Echo Spring.' Physically, Echo Spring is nothing more than a nickname for a liquor cabinet, drawn from the brand of bourbon it contains. Symbolically, though, it refers to something quite different: perhaps to the attainment of silence, or to the obliteration of troubled thoughts that comes, temporarily at least, with a sufficiency of booze.
Echo Spring. What a lovely, consoling place it sounds. It set off another echo, too. By coincidence or otherwise most of these men shared a deep, enriching love for water. John Cheever and Tennessee Williams were passionate, even fanatical swimmers, while Hemingway and Fitzgerald shared an abiding fondness for the sea. In Raymond Carver's case, his relationship with water – particularly those freezing bottle-green trout streams that tumble out of the mountains above Port Angeles – would eventually come in some deep way to replace his toxic need for alcohol. In one of his late, wide-open poems, he wrote:
I love them the way some men love horses
or glamorous women. I have a thing
for this cold swift water.
Just looking at it makes my blood run
and my skin tingle.
The word trip also seemed important. Many alcoholics, including the writers I was interested in, have been relentless travellers, driven like uneasy spirits across their own nations and into the other countries of this world. Like Cheever, I had a notion that it might be possible to plot the course of some of these restless lives by way of a physical journey across America. Over the next few weeks, I planned to take what is known in AA circles as a geographical, a footloose journey across the country, first south, through New York, New Orleans and Key West, and then north-west, via St. Paul, the site of John Berryman's ill-fated recovery, and on to the rivers and creeks of Port Angeles, where Raymond Carver spent his last, exultant years.
Looked at on a map, this itinerary seems haphazard, even a little masochistic, particularly since I'd resolved to travel largely by train. Like many things to do with the subject, though, its real meaning was encoded. Each of these locations had served as a way station or staging post in which the successive phases of alcohol addiction had been acted out. By travelling through them in sequence, I thought it might be possible to build a kind of topographical map of alcoholism, tracing its developing contours from the pleasures of intoxication through to the gruelling realities of the drying-out process. And as I worked across the country, passing back and forth between books and lives, I hoped I might come closer to understanding what alcohol addiction means, or at least to finding out what those who struggled with and were sometimes destroyed by it thought alcohol had meant for them.
The first of the cities was fast approaching. While I'd been gazing out of the window, the seatbelt sign had switched to green. I fumbled for the pin and turned again to the glass. Outside, the ground was rising swiftly through the colourless miles of air. Now I could see Long Island, and beyond the ruffled waters the runways of JFK. Silhouetted behind it were the skyscrapers of Manhattan, rising like iron filings into the pale sky. 'These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light,' John Cheever once wrote wistfully about the city he most loved. It did indeed seem to shine, an island citadel bounded by water, the Atlantic flashing pewter as we hedged in above the waves.
Copyright © 2013 by Olivia Laing
Meet the Author
Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. Her first book, To the River, was published by Canongate in the U.K. to wide acclaim and shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. She has been the deputy books editor of the Observer, and writes for The Guardian, New Statesman, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. She is a MacDowell Fellow, and has received grants from the Arts Council and the Authors' Foundation. She lives in Cambridge, England.
Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. Her first book, To the River, was published by Canongate to wide acclaim and shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. She has been the deputy books editor of the Observer, and writes for The Guardian, New Statesman, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. She is a MacDowell Fellow, and has received grants from the Arts Council and the Authors' Foundation. She lives in Cambridge, England.
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I have always been fascinated by famed alcoholic writers. In Olivia Laing's book The Trip to Echo Spring she follows the drinking careers (and writing careers) of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. The writing is brilliant, as are the details.


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