Michio Higashi (born August 2, 1941) "A Night Starting with a Martini" Yuraku Publishing (Publisher) Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha (Distributor) Published July 2014, 288 pages
Michio Higashi (born August 2, 1941)
"A Night Starting with a Martini"
Yuraku Publishing (Publisher)
Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha (Distributor)
Published July 2014
288 pages
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4408594180
"The ultimate essay to accompany a drink"
"There are two reasons for drinking alcohol,"
wrote Thomas Love Peacock, a 19th-century novelist and poet.
"One is to quench one's thirst."
I cannot help but nod in agreement.
What else could quench the thirst of a slightly weary evening
other than alcohol?
"The other is to prevent thirst."
I feel like slapping my knee in approval.
—136 episodes of alcohol that color "masterpieces."
[Table of Contents]
■Chapter 1
A Night Starting with a Martini
Drunk on Bars
Churchill, Lincoln, Philip Marlowe, Waldorf Astoria, Pete Hamill, James Taylor, Ryotaro Shiba, Shinpei Tokiwa, Bonnie and Clyde, Yoshitaka Takahashi...
■Chapter 2
Days of Wine and Roses
Drunk on Music
Frank Sinatra, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Nanci Griffith, Willie Nelson, The Kingston Trio, Bob Dylan, Patti Page, Thelonious Monk, Nancy Sinatra, John Lennon, The Andrews Sisters, Billy Joel...
■Chapter 3
Gunmen and Champagne
Drunk on Movies
Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, John Ford, Henry Fonda, Jeanne Moreau, Mia Farrow, Richard Gere, Meryl Streep, Audrey Hepburn, Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Marilyn Monroe, 007, Jaws...
■Chapter 4
Phantom Lady
Drunk on Mystery
Holmes, Agatha Christie, Hammett, Chandler, Warren Murphy, Ian Fleming, Lawrence Block, Gavin Lyall, Ken Follett, Robert B. Parker, Dick Francis, Allan Poe, Ed McBain, Sara Paretsky...
■Chapter 5
Hemingway's Mojito
Drunk on Great Writers
Bradbury, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Defoe, Cicero, The New Testament, Benjamin Franklin..."
Finished reading on August 13, 2014
Fukuoka City Public Library collection
"From the Rim of the Glass"
Goma Books May 2009
Retitled, added to, and revised
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4777113485
"Nihon Keizai Shimbun"
Saturday Evening Edition
July 6, 2002 – January 31, 2009
Serialized weekly
Author born in 1941
Michio Higashi,
"My parents were second-generation Japanese-Canadians"
136 two-page essays by him.
For someone like me who loves alcohol, music, movies, and translated mysteries,
this was an irresistibly interesting and fun read.
The topics are so abundant that I certainly
don't remember all the content.
"A Night Starting with a Martini
Drunk on Bars
at the counter"
"Days of Wine and Roses
Drunk on Music
singin' to myself"
"Gunmen and Champagne
Drunk on Movies
sittin' in the dark place"
"Phantom Lady
Drunk on Mystery
in the mean street"
"Hemingway's Mojito
Drunk on Great Writers
drinkin' 7days a week"
It is composed of these five chapters.
The afterword says,
"A column serialized weekly for almost seven and a half years,"
so I assume they were carefully selected from over three hundred pieces,
but I would love to read the pieces that were not included in this book.
"In Raymond Chandler's work, said to be the pinnacle of hard-boiled mystery,
especially in 'The Long Goodbye' (Hayakawa Bunko), which vies for first or second place,
the protagonist Philip Marlowe eats something unexpected.
'I went to Lorry's, had a martini, and ate a fine rib roast and Yorkshire pudding.'
(Translated by Shunji Shimizu)
Rib roast refers to prime rib roast,
which is American-style roast beef.
I have a strong feeling now that you don't eat that with a martini."
p.16 'Eat? Or not eat?'
The following is from
Haruki Murakami (born January 12, 1949)
who chose it as the first book he translated by Chandler,
"The Long Goodbye"
Hayakawa Publishing, March 2007
"I closed the office door and started heading toward 'Victor's.'
Just as Terry [Lennox] had written in his letter,
I thought I would drink a gimlet there.
But I changed my mind on the way.
I'm not in that kind of mood.
Instead, I went to 'Lorry's,' drank a martini,
and ate prime rib and Yorkshire pudding."
"The Long Goodbye"
Hayakawa Mystery Bunko, September 2010
p.157
When I search for Michio Higashi at the Fukuoka City Public Library,
48 items hit,
but what I read is...
only this. ↓
Dokushometer
Michio Higashi's Bookshelf
Registered books: 6
https://bookmeter.com/users/32140/bookcases/11091398
"America Eats.
A Journey Around the Mysteries of American Food Culture"
Sakuhinsha, August 2015
736 pages!
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4861825431
I borrowed this from the Fukuoka City Public Library in September 2015, but
I didn't finish reading it by the return deadline, so it's unregistered.
I want to get drunk more—wait, that's a typo—I want to read more.
"America Sings.
The Mysteries of America Hidden in Song"
Sakuhinsha, February 2010
291 pages
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4861822750
I also borrowed this once and held it in my hands, but
I couldn't read it either.
https://note.com/fe1955/n/ndf98c7c38747
Michio Higashi (born August 2, 1941)
"Menu Book of Mystery-tei"
Shobunsha, published January 1988
221 pages
Eggs Benedict
Pink Gin, the oldest cocktail
https://note.com/fe1955/n/n6a01d67677e2
Ikuko Kaiya
"A Dish from a Mystery
You Can Make the Taste of That Scene"
Japan Broadcast Publishing Co., Ltd.
Published June 2000
Patricia Cornwell
Sue Grafton
Simon Brett
Sara Paretsky
Aaron Elkins
Christine Andreae
Minette Walters
Janet Neel
Jonathan Kellerman
Dick Francis
Dana Stabenow
Deborah Crombie
Janet Evanovich
Faye Kellerman
Carolyn G. Hart
Sally Chapman
Agatha Christie
https://note.com/fe1955/n/n1c9be724f80c
Ikuko Kaiya
"Reading Mystery Through Cooking
(Seikatsujin Shinsho)"
Japan Broadcast Publishing Co., Ltd., published January 2003
217 pages
Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947)
Sara Paretsky
Chicago female private investigator
V.I. Warshawski (21 volumes published)