About the book:

From LA Times bestselling author Mallory O’Meara, a James Beard Award-winning history of women drinking through the ages

Alcohol has been at the center of social rituals and cultures worldwide. But when exactly did drinking become a gendered act? Why have bars long been considered “places for men” when, without women, they might not even exist?

Girly Drinks unveils an entire untold history of the female distillers, drinkers, and brewers that have played a vital role in the creation and consumption of alcohol. Filling a crucial gap in culinary history, O’Meara dismantles the longstanding patriarchal traditions and stereotypes at the heart of these very drinking cultures, in the hope that readers everywhere can look to each celebrated woman in this book – and proudly have what she’s having.

About the author:

Mallory O'Meara is an award winning and best-selling author and historian. She lives with her two cats in the mountains near Los Angeles, where she is at work on her next nonfiction book.

Her first book, The Lady From The Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, is a Los Angeles Times bestseller. It won the 2019 SCIBA Award for Biography, the Rondo 2019 Book of the Year, and was nominated for Hugo and Locus awards.

Her second book, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol, was released October 2021 to critical acclaim. It won a James Beard Award and was nominated for a 2022 Spirited Award.

Her third book, Girls Make Movies, co-created with cartoonist Jen Vaughn, was released in the spring of 2023. It is a 2023 Junior Library Guild Selection and was named one of the Best Children’s Books of Summer 2023 by Book Riot.

Every week since 2017, Mallory hosts the literary podcast Reading Glasses alongside filmmaker and writer Brea Grant. The show is hosted by Maximum Fun and focuses on book culture and reader life.