Eric Newhouse

Eric Newhouse, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper columns reprinted in this book, is a veteran newspaper reporter. As such, he's seen what he refers to as the flotsam and jetsam of human life: the divorces, lost jobs, battered wives and children, crime, drunken drivers, car wrecks, mostra altro and medical bills. And, he's come to the conclusion that alcohol is behind much of it. Take away the alcohol, in other words, and much of the human tragedy that he chronicles would go away. mostra meno