Browse Tag: New Books

Whether it’s a book with cocktail recipes or a story about happy hours—we’ll take these reads on the rocks, please. Drinks in Literature: Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler  The bestselling novel about a young woman’s coming-of-age, set against the glitzy, grimy backdrop of New York’s most elite restaurants—Now a STARZ Original Series.  Newly arrived in New York City, twenty-two-year-old Tess lands a job as a “backwaiter” at a celebrated downtown Manhattan restaurant. What follows is the story of her education: in champagne and cocaine, love and lust, dive bars and fine dining rooms, as she learns to navigate the chaotic, enchanting,…