We talk about books, but mostly, the people who wrote them. And we do it while trying out a fun drink, just like a real book club... I mean pub... no, yes, I meant club.
Episodes
Dec 25, 2020
Dec 25, 2020
1 hr 8 min
Madeline tells Lesley about the author of Little Woman and others. We're enjoying a twist on the Bishop's Cocktail, which is 3 parts rum, 1 part red wine and 1 part cranberry cocktail. Enjoy!
Dec 14, 2020
Dec 14, 2020
44 min
Live Show Recording! Lesley tells Madeline about the man who created the Peter Pan mythology, JM Barrie! We're enjoying A Honey Bee Cocktail which is 1 part scotch whiskey, 1 part Bailey's, and a squeeze of honey stirred together.
Nov 30, 2020
Nov 30, 2020
1 hr 15 min
Madeline tells Lesley about famous chef and memoir author Anthony Bourdain! We're drinking a flight (since we are coving a famous connoisseur of delicious things. Act 1: traditional Negroni. Act 2 traditional Manhattan. Act 3 Burmese cocktail.
Nov 22, 2020
Nov 22, 2020
1 hr 8 min
Lesley tells Madeline about the most famous talk show host, Oprah Winfrey! We're drinking her favorite, pomegranate martinis!
Oct 30, 2020
Oct 30, 2020
1 hr 3 min
Madeline tells Lesley about the strange and creepy life of Edgar Allan Poe. We discuss his death while drinking Raven cocktails.
Oct 27, 2020
Oct 27, 2020
1 hr 14 min
Lesley tells Madeline about the writer of The Haunting of Hill House and the short story The Lottery, Shirley Jackson! We're drinking Shirley Jackson negronis!
Oct 20, 2020
Oct 20, 2020
1 hr 2 min
Madeline Tells Lesley about Daphane du Maurier, the writer of Rebecca and other stories known as movies by Alfred Hitchcock. We're drinking a new made up cocktail we're calling "Daphane Fleewoods"... maybe.
Oct 12, 2020
Oct 12, 2020
1 hr 12 min
Lesley tells Madeline all about the demon dog of literature, crime novelist James Ellroy! We're drinking Black Dahlia cocktails created by the Gallery Bar in Los Angeles.
Sources include:
JamesEllroy.net which lead to several interviews
Britannica profile written by David Calhoun
New York Times interview “James Ellroy on his life in crime, his imaginary dog and the need to provoke” by David Marchese Countless YouTube interviews with James Ellroy
And of course, his own autobiographies, My Dark Places and The Hilliker Curse
Oct 5, 2020
Oct 5, 2020
1 hr 10 min
Madeline tells Lesley about author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast At Tiffany's, Truman Capote. We're drinking... well, you decide! What should we call this strange mixer?
Sep 28, 2020
Sep 28, 2020
1 hr 7 min
Lesley tells Madeline about poet Pablo Neruda, his work, his involvement in Communism, and if he was possibly murdered by the government! We're drinking Pablo Pisco Punch!