Spirits of the Scribes

Papa pours himself a stiff one.   Tore Johnson/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

Booze and/or drugs and creativity have long been intertwined. Writer Robert Moor, who worked at a distillery, did a little research into the favorite libations of some of our more colorful and creative authors and how they flavored the pages of their works: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/10/23/faulkners-cocktail-of-choice/
  Writers write about it, singers sing about it, poets write odes to it. But is their creativity helped or harmed by a little tipple? The answer depends on so many factors, but one thing is sure: Our libraries would be the poorer without it: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/20/why-do-writers-drink-alcohol