Dive Bar Jukebox with Emily Timberlake
"How can someone so young sing words so sad?"
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Welcome back to Dive Bar Jukebox, where every Friday bartenders, writers, chefs, musicians, and a host of dynamic people answer the question: If we were hanging out together at a bar and I put ten credits on the jukebox, what songs would you punch in and why? Their answers reveal thoughts on their favorite dive bars along with a hand-picked, annotated 10-song playlist for your weekend listening pleasure.
Please welcome today’s special guest…
Emily Timberlake
Earlier this week on LAST CALL I featured my interview with writer and author Emily Timberlake, where we talked about her decade-plus career as a senior editor at Ten Speed Press (where she edited all of my own books among many other award-winning and award-nominated cookbooks, drinks books, humor and popular culture titles), key advice to writers considering a book proposal, an inside baseball look at acquisition meetings, her process as a co-writer of others’ books, Morrissey, working with Eric Wareheim (FOODHEIM), Bobby Flay (Sundays with Sophie) and Neal Bodenheimer (Cure: New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix 'em from the Award-Winning Bar), and, of course, cats. Be sure to check it out if you haven’t already done so.
Read on for Timberlake’s tales about babies in dive bars, pint-sized Negronis, lesbian bar conga lines, and the art of the “pony beer,” along with an eclectic playlist running the gamut from Thin Lizzy and The Cramps to Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Smiths.