Wayne Curtis

Wayne Curtis is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails and The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1909 Walk from New York to San Francisco and Why It Matters Today. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Imbibe, The Daily Beast, and Garden & Gun, among other publications.

Meet Me on the Battlefront

How dressing up as Indians connects a culture to its past

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday March 19, 2015

Clickbait History

All locked up and no place to go

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday March 12, 2015

To Go Left, Turn Right

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday March 5, 2015

Bridge to Somewhere

The view from the rusty rainbow

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday February 26, 2015

Day of Disbelief

A tour of Mardi Gras

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday February 19, 2015

Throws Away

Mobs, manias, and Mardi Gras

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday February 12, 2015

Misbehaving Baldly

What’s behind the smoking ban?

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday February 5, 2015

Rising While Sinking

Postcards from New Orleans

By Wayne Curtis | Wednesday January 28, 2015

The Big Uneasy

A city’s seamy side

By Wayne Curtis | Monday September 8, 2014

Jungle Bungle

As a rubber baron, Henry Ford was no Firestone

By Wayne Curtis | Monday June 1, 2009

Mullet Street

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday August 18, 2022

Decommissioning Lee

By Wayne Curtis | Tuesday September 5, 2017

Top Banana

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday September 24, 2015

Shell-shocked

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday September 17, 2015

To Go Left, Turn Right

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday September 10, 2015

And Then, Quiet

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday September 3, 2015

Living with Water

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday August 27, 2015

Walled City

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday August 20, 2015

Everybody Scream

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday August 13, 2015

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