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.

The Art of Doing

Let’s give our hands a great big hand

By Wayne Curtis | Saturday March 1, 2008

Happy Talk

What did we know about joy, and when did we know it?

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday March 1, 2007

Rum and Coca-Cola

The murky derivations of a sweet drink and a sassy World War II song

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday June 1, 2006

Brand-New Cities

Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Effect looks a lot like 1960s-style urban renewal

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday December 1, 2005

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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