Events

Colfax Avenue: Max Watman, the horse-racing correspondent for the New York Sun, is author of Race Day: A Spot on the Rail with Max Watman, an editors’ choice in the New York Times Book Review. A regular contributor to the New York Times’ Arts and Letters pages, he has covered books, music, food, and drink, and for six years, wrote the semi-annual Fiction Chronicle—an omnibus review of important novels and short story collections—for The New Criterion. Watman will discuss and sign his fascinating new book Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine ($25.00 Simon & Schuster). In Chasing the White Dog, Watman traces the historical roots and contemporary story of hooch. He takes us to the backwoods of Appalachia and the gritty nip joints of Philadelphia, from a federal courthouse to Pocono Speedway, profiling the colorful characters who make up white whiskey’s lore. Along the way, Watman chronicles his hilarious attempts to distill his own moonshine—the essential ingredients and the many ways it can all go wrong—from his initial ill-fated batch to his first successful jar of ‘shine. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com