Drinking With Men : A Memoir (9781101603123) (23 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Not long after I started writing this book, my husband, Frank Duba, was diagnosed with cancer. He faced it with extraordinary grace until his death in 2010. At the time of his diagnosis, we were separated; love and circumstances unseparated us. This was a story I could not tell here, but Frank is present on every page, and no words of appreciation or affection could ever suffice.

I'm grateful for my painstaking and patient editor, Megan Lynch, who rescued me from many of my worst impulses, her wonderful assistant, Alexandra Cardia, and publisher Geoffrey Kloske at Riverhead; for my coolheaded agent, Scott Waxman, and his associates; and for Ira Glass, Julie Snyder, and their colleagues at
This American Life
, which aired an early version of this book's first chapter, setting the whole thing in motion.

I'm indebted to Catherine Gilbert Murdock, the author of the excellent book
Domesticating Drink,
who gamely and graciously answered my questions about women and bar culture before Prohibition and directed me to other helpful resources.

My dear brother, Jeremy Schaap, supported and encouraged me immeasurably. Among my beloved friends, I especially thank Elena Alexander, Jami Attenberg, John Bowman, Philip Casey, Jiwon Choi, Andy Kolovos, Lisa Ng, Dael Orlandersmith, John Paul, Lu Ratunil, Michael Sharkey, Ann Shostrom, Geoffrey Smyth, Annika Sundvik, and Jeffrey Walkowiak.

And: Anaheed Alani, Michael Andre, Jeff Baker, Matthew Beckerman, Claire Birmingham, Susan Black, Carla Bolte, Lex Braes, Dee Byrd-Molnar and Paul Molnar, Kate Christensen, Andrew Cohen, Wyn Cooper, T. L. Cowan, Brian Currid, Jennifer Dickinson, Susan Dumois, Aylin Emeksiz, Dori Fern, Brendan Fitzgerald, Roland Gebhardt, Benjamin Gervis, Dan Gillham, Jeff Gordinier, Sophie Gorlin, Teri Greeves, Dave Guimond, Rick Hamlin, Anthony Hauck, Debbie Hecht, Ken Heitmueller, Vivian Heller, Jean Holabird, Sylvia and Bob Jorlett, Blaise Kearsley, Bernice and Paul Kelly, Jon Kelly, Max Langrind, Katherine Lanpher, John Lavelle, Hugo Lindgren, Howard McCalebb, Brian McNally, Andra Miller, Reggie Miller, Meredith Morton, Joe Mueller, Sarah Nankin, Maud Newton, Eustace Pilgrim, Jasmine Rault, Angus Robertson, Roots Café, Maria and John Ross, Maura Spiegel, John Stoate, Ruth Sullivan, Mark Sweeney, Josephine Vazquez, Wilhelm Werthern, Craig West, Charles Yoder, Maggie Zackheim, Jenny Zeuli, Susan Zugaib, I raise a glass to you all—
sláinte, skål, salut, na zdrowie, prost, cheers.