Part One of Two. This time we're drinking Yellow Belly Imperial Stout while taking an intensive look at the founding of the United States' longest-running terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan. Along the way, we'll try to sift fact from fiction about the group's earliest days, examine factors leading to the Klan's formation, and dig down to the bedrock cause of the American Civil War. (Spoiler alert — It's not what you think.)

Red Alert! Velvet Merkin! Dr. Strangelove! Transient Psychotic Disorders! Command and Control! Attack Plan R! Confused? You won't be after our latest Of Books and Booze episode.

Episode 008 ⎯ Green Lantern - Director's Cut - This time we're analyzing the 2018 Allan Scott Pinot Noir and two(!) of comic books' most storied characters, the Golden Age and Silver Age Green Lanterns! The Director's Cut expands on info regarding libraries; the history, development, and marginalization of comics as an art form; Chabon’s Theorem; and the three great cultural lies explaining the Green Lantern/Sinestro dynamic.

Episode 008 ⎯ Green Lantern - (Edited for time and precision.) This time we're analyzing the 2018 Allan Scott Pinot Noir and two(!) of comic books' most storied characters, the Golden Age and Silver Age Green Lanterns!

It's Episode 007 and you know what that means: Birdwatchers, martinis, cocktail science, space-age surf rock, and the literary inspirations for the world's best-known secret agent, James Bond. Cheers!

Our first interview with a live person! In this episode, we’re talking with Chicago cartoonist, illustrator, and teaching artist, Mike Freiheit about his new psychological horror graphic novel, and drinking a couple of fine beers from the 5 Rabbit CervcerÍa. Salud!

Today, we get into Part II of The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis by Sherwin B. Nuland while suffering the effects of one of the highest of the high-proof grain alcohols — Spirytus Rektyfikowany. Egészségedre!

(That's 'cheers' in Hungarian.)

In this episode, we talk about The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis by Sherwin B. Nuland while test-driving the highest of the high-proof grain alcohols — Spirytus Rektyfikowany. Na Zdrowie!

When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano by Donald R. Prothero ; 2016 Brassfield Eruption Red Blend (California)

Today, we’re talking about We’re Not From Here, by Goeff Rodkey, while sampling not one but two boozes — Space Station Middle Finger American Pale Ale by 3 Floyds Brewing Co., and Outerspace Vodka. There’s even a drinking game. Skol!