British writer and essayist Olivia Lang's 2013 book, "Journey to the Well of Echoes," explores the intersection of alcoholism and literary creativity. In an attempt to uncover the roots of the devastating addictions of American writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, John Berryman, and Raymond Carver, Lang analyzes a wide range of biographical and scholarly materials: letters, diaries, interviews, novels, memoirs, and articles on neurobiology and drug addiction. Her travelogues, written during a trip to a place symbolic of her characters, are intertwined with personal recollections and reflections on the nature of addiction. As in his later works, in this artistic exploration, Lang skillfully combines fact and conjecture, switching narrative registers between his own experience and external history to trace the connection between psychological trauma and the desire for verbal creativity and intoxicating self-destruction.