'The Wet and the Dry' is a nuanced cocktail of a book

Lawrence Osborne's 'The Wet and the Dry' is a paean to drinking, a travelogue unfolding largely through the Islamic states of the Middle East and a memoir of sorts."He who makes a beast of himself," Samuel Johnson famously observed, "gets rid of the pain of being a man." His subject is, of course, inebriation and the way that, in the derangement of the senses, we might escape, however briefly, what Lawrence Osborne calls "a loneliness that otherwise cannot be so easily dislodged." Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

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