Going For A Beer (2011) by Robert Coover

I'll never forget the day I first read this short story in the  New Yorker magazine. I was stunned. I was shaking. I had to reread it again several times to convince myself I wasn't hallucinating. Robert Coover, an American writer on the edge, had done it again. The story is brilliant. 

I alerted several writer friends to the story, and they agreed. Coover had reshaped traditional narrative to show, better than any other literary work we knew of, how the mind works when under the influence of alcohol.This story doesn't describe what it's like to be drunk: it PERFORMS what it's like.

And I am blown away again to find the story on the Internet in an excellent reading.

Going For A Beer

https://youtu.be/75KPZY9ftV0?si=LLb7YSdYvnqWNfA5

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