Drinking with Men

Rosie Schaap has been a bartender, a fortuneteller, a librarian at a paranormal society, an English teacher, an editor, a preacher, a community organizer, and a manager of homeless shelters. A contributor to This American Life and npr.org, she writes the Drink column for The New York Times Magazine. She was born in New York City and still lives there.

"Schaap brings a poet's touch to her memoir, which brims with insight and wisdom."
Jimmy Breslin

This book will be a classic. There is so much joy in this book! It s a great, comforting, wonderful, funny, inspiring, moving memoir about community and belief and the immense redemptive powers of alcohol drunk properly.

Kate Christensen, author of In the Drink and The Great Man

"There are bar stories and there are coming-of-age stories. And then there is Rosie Schaap's thoughtful and funny chronicle that reminds us of all the drinks, dives, and deep conversations that helped make us who we are. This is a wise, engaging memoir."
Wendy McClure, author of The Wilder Life and I m Not the New Me

Schaap warmly toasts the urge so many of us share to find a spot where everybody knows your name.
People

A witty homage to pubs and bars and the regulars who call them home.
O Magazine 

[Schaap] describes the unusual camaraderie among bar regulars with poignant specificity. It s a cozy, intimate pleasure to go belly-to-bar with her.
Entertainment Weekly

"With focused premise and expansive feeling... [and] very smart assessments of a mode of being that s not given the credit it deserves. 'Drinking With Men' would pair very well this time of year with a well-aged whiskey and a handful of peanuts."
The Boston Globe

A wonderfully funny and openhearted book from a generous, charismatic writer [Schaap is] a born storyteller There's no substitute for the kind of community you can find in a good tavern. And no American writer can explain it better than Rosie Schaap.
NPR.org

Rosie Schaap s New York Times column on the pleasures of drinking has always been like the best bartenders funny, smart, and slightly bawdy. This memoir is also all those things and there s no hangover.
W Magazine

Beautifully rendered.
The Daily Beast

Funny, smart-as-hell, moving.
Salon 

Witty a vivid study of both Schaap s life in