Andrew Shaffer's
Literary Rogues
is an unflinching look at the bad behavior of some of our most beloved authors, from Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, to Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, to Hunter S. Thompson and Bret Easton Ellis.
is a wildly funny and illuminating history and analysis of the bad boys and girls of lit, from the author of
Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love
Part nostalgia, part serious history of Western literary movements,
Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors
is a raucous celebration of oft-vilified writers and their work, brimming with interviews, research, and personality.