Raised in the Forrest Hills section of Newark, New Jersey, city life was an inherent part of Christopher Angelo Lento’s experience. While his Family relocated to Hunterdon County, NJ, in his late teens, high school graduation and a brief stint at Rutgers University was nowhere near enough to quench his thirst for adventure. An attempted career in modeling and acting took him around the world, yet the position of bartender and bar manager paid the bills along the way. Relocating to diff erent cities and abroad landed him in Hollywood.. An actor by trade and bartender by night give this barkeeps memoir an edge and truth into the underworld of bartending not seen before. This is the memoir the industry craves, yet doesn’t dare write.

These are the stories of six professional bartenders.Before marriage and family, and the never ending responsibilities that go with them, they chose bartending as a profession. These aren't kids trying to find their way, or want to be actors waiting to be discovered; they are Professional bartenders that take pride in their work and are very good at what they do. They work hard... play hard... and for many, this will be the best times of their life. They get paid to do a job, to be nice, and to serve, but really... There are only two reasons to be a bartender, to get paid... or to get laid... and with a little luck you may get both; while having a hell of a lot of fun along the way. Bartenders like to share... their life... their loves... and their stories...

Welcome to the often strange, sometimes unbelievable, and always hilarious world that is the life of Dave Lawrence. In the Bartender Journals, Lawrence chronicles his whiskey fueled misadventures with a classic style of prose akin to such greats as Kerouac and Bukowski before him. His story of a bartender in a town run by sports and martini culture who wants nothing more than a cold beer and a dingy tavern, is punctuated by tales of gun wielding Russian mobsters, the ghost of Ernest Hemmingway, a police SWAT team, Santa Claus, and not in the least a never ending series of disastrous romances. Through it all Lawrence's unique voice echoes what may become the next great work of American writing.

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Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life is a memoir of the bartending life structured as a day in the life at Passerby, the bar owned and run by Toby Cecchini. It is, as well, a rich study of human nature—of the sometimes annoying, sometimes outlandish behavior of the human animal under the influence of alcohol, lust, and the sheer desire to bust loose and party. It's not a pretty picture, but it's always compelling through the gimlet-eyed gaze of the author. As his typical day progresses, from the almost pastoral quiet of opening the bar and setting up to the gathering rush of customers dropping in after work to the sheer madness of catering to a crazed crush of funseekers, Toby Cecchini muses over a life spent in the service industry and the fascinating particulars of his chosen profession. Topics touched on include dealing with regulars, both welcome and not; sex and the bartender; cocktail connoisseurs (and drinks he refuses to make); learning the bartending ropes of the Odeon when young and newly arrived in New York; the sheer man-killing pace of keeping those drinks coming at flood tide; and the manifold varieties of weirdness and bad behavior that every bartender has to learn how to manage. Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life is the hip, behind-the-scenes look at the frenzied yet undeniably fun atmosphere of that great establishment—the bar—and Toby Cecchini is, by turns, witty, acute, mordant, and lyrical in dealing with the realities of his job, shedding plenty of light on the hidden corners of what people do when they go out at night.

Organ Donor is the first short story from the collection, The Tequila Diaries. This work is a horror short focusing around the characters Creek and Jennifer. The young couple is about to have their lives changed in the blink of an eye. Join the two junkies on a descent into blackness and find out exactly why people never investigate what they see out of the corner of their eye.