Author: Dan Dunn File Type: epub **Read the book Sammy Hagar calls kick-ass, balls to the wall rock n roll cranked to ear-bleed levels. Many people drink, few do it professionally. My name is Dan Dunn and I consume alcohol for a living. Thats right. I get paid to run around boozing, carousing, and getting into all manner of trouble, all in the name of covering the adult beverage beat for one of the most iconic brands on the planet, Playboy. I hereby invite you to join me, as I conduct revealing hotel room interviews with porn stars in LA go Zip Cat racing in Scotland with Stifler from American Pie turn the notoriously posh Pebble Peach Wine Tournament into the opportunity for a 3-day bender (thank God for my trusty voice recorder) enjoy whiskey-fueled romantic encounters in alleyways behind East Village watering holes get forcibly removed from a boxing match at a Vegas casino (thanks to an unfortunate misunderstanding involving lots of liquor, and the flag of Cuba) get dumped by my strippermed student girlfriend (mid-lap dance, no less) simply for not being husband material wake up naked on a big-shot Hollywood producers living room floor and learn, the hard way, why NEVER to order an Irish car bomb in a Dublin pub. Along the way, Ill share with you the hard-won wisdom from a life lived loaded, including how to amass a kick-ass collection of bar memorabilia, to how to be Yankee and survive bars in the sticks, to how to maintain the perfect buzz during air travel. And for those of you really serious about cocktails, Ive even included 16 original recipes created just for this book by the worlds best-known practitioners of the mixocological arts. You can thank me later. A bawdy barroom confessional that leaves no shot glass un-shot, no beer un-chugged, no potential paramour un-hit-upon, this is the most entertaining and honest book about the Drinking Life ever written. At least, ever written by me. From the Trade Paperback edition.**From BooklistThe author of Playboy.coms Imbiber column is proud of his vocation, reminding us repeatedly that he drinks for a living. As we noted in our review of Nobody Likes a Quitter (2007), though Dunn also enjoys comparing himself to his late mentor, Hunter S. Thompson, hes like Thompson without the political awareness, righteous indignation, and satirical genius in short, hes a guy whos good at partying. But, given this books title, hes not really promising anything else. He is a good storyteller, lacing his often tongue-in-cheek advice about the boozing life with outre anecdotes and even somewhat sober introspection. And his advice about drinking is refreshingly unpretentious, which makes the 15 cocktail recipes from prominent mixologists seem somewhat misplaced. Though they may taste delightful, few of them will be accomplished by mere mortals without a scavenger hunt at high-end liquor stores. This sometimes slapdash compendium (much of it taken from his columns) has its moments but will be most avidly consumed by those who share the authors own awe at his job Dude, you drink for a living? --Keir Graff ReviewDunns style, like his subject matter, is prototypical Playboy brash, funny, unapologetically masculine, sex-obsessed, packed with wordplay and self-referential asides. It was written to be a little informative and a lot of fun, and it succeeds on both counts. In an age when exercise and a low-fat diet has been conflated with virtue, its refreshing to read about some good, old-fashioned, unabashedly drunken high-jinks -TheAtlantic Break out the highballs Playboy.coms boozer columnist, Dan the Imbiber Dunn, has written a second book worth perusing over a couple rounds. - LA Magazine Youll find Dan The Imbiber Dunns new book, Living Loaded, to be a profound meditation on the finer points of... drinking. -- ThrillistGrab a drink, and make it a double.... Living Loaded takes up where his previosu book, Nobody Likes a Quitter (and other reasons to avoid rehab) left off - on a barstool in one of the planets zillion drinking establishments. Dunns mission is to experience the absolute hell out of them all, or get thrown out trying. Hes even created a taxonomy of barchetypes to help structure his often foul mouthed, always hilarious, and sometimes touching quest. - Tasting Panel Magazine. There was once a great tradition of smart, funny writers who told drinking stories WC Fields, Kingsley Amis. They got replaced by self-pitying AA-memoirs. Im so glad I got to read Dan Dunns smart, funny, drinking stories book and not his next book, which will undoubtedly be a self-pitying AA memoir. -Joel Stein, Time Magazine Living Loadedis a rip-roaring funny and sometimes sad bender of a book. Living up to his reputation as his generations best outlaw journalist, Dan Dunn flirts with doom and wins. A flat-out carousing home-run. -Douglas Brinkley, NY Times Be... hr hr

Author: Namita Gokhale File Type: epub The Himalayas, the tallest and the youngest mountains in the world, spread from Afghanistan and Pakistan through India, Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar with their northern extrusions - the Ximalaya Shanmai - across the Tibetan plateau in China. Despite border restrictions, the inhabitants of this region continue to share a trans-Himalayan identity, fragile yet enduring. The Himalayan Arc focuses on a crucial, enthralling, politically turbulent, yet often underreported part of this Himalayan belt - the East of South-east. With over thirty contributors such as Sanjoy Hazarika, Janice Pariat, Prajwal Parajuly, Thomas Bell, Ma Thida, Salil Tripathi, Catherine Anderson, and Indira Goswami, it attempts to describe the sense of shared lives and cultural connectivity between the denizens of this area. Poetry, fiction, and mysticism are juxtaposed with essays on strategy and diplomacy, espionage and the deep state, photographs, folk tales, and fables. From the unique identity of a Himalayan citizen to the geopolitical jigsaw that is the region from the hidden spy network in Kathmandu to intimate portraits of Shillong, Gangtok, Darjeeling, and other cities from the insurgency in Assam to a portrait of Myanmar under military rule, the essays, stories, and poems in this anthology highlight the similarities within the differences of the Himalayan belt. Providing insider and outsider perspectives on this intriguing part of the world, The Himalayan Arc is a travel book with a difference.