Title
The Bloody Papers
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Framed within her own literary travels to Key West, Laing considers Hemingway’s alcoholism considering his dysfunctional family history. Performs similar analyses on John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Berryman, suggesting that, for these artists, writing and drinking served similar purposes in processing their difficult upbringings. Frequent references to “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” and “Now I Lay Me.”
Published in
The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink
Date
2013
Pages
135-173
COinS
Citation
Laing, Olivia. “The Bloody Papers.” In The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink, 135-73. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2013.