Bar Guide for the Seriously Deranged
(By Alan Catlin)
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“Catlin’s latest is a bartender’s answer to Extraordinary
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.”
—Charlotte Nicholls, novelist and essayist
“Told with wit, humor, and a thoroughly jaundiced eye,
Catlin’s latest is a guided tour through the barrooms of
Hell. If there was such a thing as Virgil with a shot glass,
Catlin would be it.”
—Patrick Allen, occasional poet
“Alan Catlin has been a bartender for over 30 years. In this collection, Bar Guide for the Seriously Deranged, he writes about the people he has known on the other side of the bar. He pulls no punches as he takes us on a nostalgic journey through the back alleys, the gutters, the mind of a Vietnam Vet, Dennis Hopper with high handlebars with the smoke of Kent State looming in the background. With cheap beer to vodka martinis to who the hell named those stupid hipster drinks, Catlin does not hold back. I have read Alan Catlin for years and of course this is not his first collection of his bartender memoir poems but it is certainly his best.”
—Scot Young, Editor of the Rusty Truck”
