{"id":495,"date":"2024-10-10T19:03:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T19:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2024-10-10T19:03:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T19:03:47","slug":"portland-book-talk-with-evan-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/10\/portland-book-talk-with-evan-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland book talk with Evan Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Portland people: Tomorrow, October 11th, I&#8217;m excited to host a book chat with my longtime internet pal Evan Rail, talking about his new book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/763847\/the-absinthe-forger-by-evan-rail\/\">The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World&#8217;s Most Dangerous Spirit<\/a><\/em>. We&#8217;ll be at Belmont Books at 7:00 pm followed by drinks at the great new spot Bar Loon. Come join us and enjoy a taste of the green fairy yourself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the official book description:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>An astonishing true crime story about an eccentric grifter who blew up the lucrative black market for vintage bottles of the legendary drink of artistic renegades, absinthe . . .<\/strong><br><br>Thought to be hallucinogenic and banned globally for a century, absinthe is once again legal and popular. Yet it is still associated with bohemian lifestyles, just as when it was the favorite drink of avant-gardists like Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh and Baudelaire. And today, when vintage, pre-ban bottles are discovered, they can sell for exorbitant prices to private collectors. But such discoveries are increasingly rare.<br><br>Which is why the absinthe demimonde of rich collectors was electrified when a mysterious bon vivant claimed to be in possession of a collection of precious, pre-ban bottles.<br><br>Is his secret tranche of 100-year-old bottles real? And just who is the shadowy person selling them? And what about rumors of another secret cache, hidden away in an Italian palazzo?<br><br>Journalist Evan Rail sets out to discover the truth about the enigmatic dealer and the secret stashes. Along the way, he drinks with\u00a0<em>absintheurs<\/em>\u00a0frantically chasing down the pre-bans, visits modern distillers who have seen their status rise from criminal bootleggers to sought-after celebrities, and relates the legendary history of absinthe, from its birth in Switzerland through its coming of age in France, and on to its modern revival.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland people: Tomorrow, October 11th, I&#8217;m excited to host a book chat with my longtime internet pal Evan Rail, talking about his new book The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World&#8217;s Most Dangerous Spirit. We&#8217;ll be at Belmont Books at 7:00 pm followed by drinks at the great new spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/EvanRail.jpg?fit=1695%2C2048&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}