A Bartender's Life  by Toby Cecchini  Hardcover, 238 pages,
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helps support NPR Programming. How?  Book Summary  A humorous
portrayal of the sometimes chaotic life of bartending follows
the author's experiences as the owner and tender of the bar
Passerby, during which he routinely observed his customers'
animal behavior, received unorthodox requests, managed difficult
regulars, and more.  Read an excerpt of this book   Excerpt:
Cosmopolitan  Chapter OneRousing the Drunk  In the town of Eau
Claire in northern Wisconsin, where my fatherlives, there is an
old wooden saloon called the Joynt on WaterStreet, just a short
block off the Chippewa River. The Joyntfunctions to this day as
all things to all people in that city. It'san egalitarian space
by necessity. There is a satellite college ofthe University of
Wisconsin there, cheek by jowl with the oldUniroyal tire factory
and myriad paper processin