Madeline tells Lesley about the author of Little Woman and others. We're enjoying a twist on the Bishop's Cocktail, which is 3 parts rum, 1 part red wine and 1 part cranberry cocktail. Enjoy! 

Live Show Recording! Lesley tells Madeline about the man who created the Peter Pan mythology, JM Barrie! We're enjoying A Honey Bee Cocktail which is 1 part scotch whiskey, 1 part Bailey's, and a squeeze of honey stirred together. 

Madeline tells Lesley about famous chef and memoir author Anthony Bourdain! We're drinking a flight (since we are coving a famous connoisseur of delicious things. Act 1: traditional Negroni. Act 2 traditional Manhattan. Act 3 Burmese cocktail. 

Lesley tells Madeline about the most famous talk show host, Oprah Winfrey! We're drinking her favorite, pomegranate martinis!

Madeline tells Lesley about the strange and creepy life of Edgar Allan Poe. We discuss his death while drinking Raven cocktails. 

Lesley tells Madeline about the writer of The Haunting of Hill House and the short story The Lottery, Shirley Jackson! We're drinking Shirley Jackson negronis! 

Madeline Tells Lesley about Daphane du Maurier, the writer of Rebecca and other stories known as movies by Alfred Hitchcock. We're drinking a new made up cocktail we're calling "Daphane Fleewoods"... maybe. 

Lesley tells Madeline all about the demon dog of literature, crime novelist James Ellroy! We're drinking Black Dahlia cocktails created by the Gallery Bar in Los Angeles. 

Sources include: 

JamesEllroy.net which lead to several interviews

Britannica profile written by David Calhoun

New York Times interview “James Ellroy on his life in crime, his imaginary dog and the need to provoke” by David Marchese Countless YouTube interviews with James Ellroy

And of course, his own autobiographies, My Dark Places and The Hilliker Curse

Madeline tells Lesley about author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast At Tiffany's, Truman Capote. We're drinking... well, you decide! What should we call this strange mixer?

Lesley tells Madeline about poet Pablo Neruda, his work, his involvement in Communism, and if he was possibly murdered by the government! We're drinking Pablo Pisco Punch!