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92Y – Cathleen Black and Liz Smith (November 26th, 2007) $4.95 …

92Y – Cathleen Black and Liz Smith (November 26th, 2007) $9.95 …

Cosmopolitan June 2005 Jessica Simpson on Cover (Talks About Everything), Most Famous Sex Tips, Zooey Deschanel, Eddie Cahill, Turn Him On in 10 Words or Less, Vacation Sex: Make It Sizzle …

Cosmopolitan February 2006 Beyonce on Cover (Finally, She Talks), 60 Sex Skills, Tight Butt Abs & Thighs, Never Lose Your Orgasm Again, Patrick Dempsy/Grey’s Anatomy on Inside Cover …

Cosmopolitan July 2006 Brittany Murphy on Cover (Tough Times She Rarely Talks About), 62 Sex Moves, How to Meet a Man in 30 Days, 7 Hot Bedroom Games, Surprising Things That Can Dampen Lust, Kyra Sedgwick/The Closer, Owen Wilson, Outrageous Eye Looks …

Cosmopolitan $10.36 New in paper! Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life is a memoir of the bartending life structured as a day in the life at Passerby, the bar owned and run by Toby Cecchini. It is, as well, a rich study of human nature—of the sometimes annoying, sometimes outlandish behavior of the human animal under the influence of alcohol, lust, and the sheer desire to bust loose and party. It’s not a pretty picture, but it’s always compelling through the gimlet-eyed gaze of the author. As his typical day progresses, from the almost pastoral quiet of opening the bar and setting up to the gathering rush of customers dropping in after work to the sheer madness of catering to a crazed crush of funseekers, Toby Cecchini muses over a life spent in the service industry and the fascinating particulars of his chosen profession. Topics touched on include dealing with regulars, both welcome and not; sex and the bartender; cocktail connoisseurs (and drinks he refuses to make); learning the bartending ropes of the Odeon when young and newly arrived in New York; the sheer man-killing pace of keeping those drinks coming at flood tide; and the manifold varieties of weirdness and bad behavior that every bartender has to learn how to manage. Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life is the hip, behind-the-scenes look at the frenzied yet undeniably fun atmosphere of that great establishment—the bar—and Toby Cecchini is, by turns, witty, acute, mordant, and lyrical in dealing with the realities of his job, shedding plenty of light on the hidden corners of what people do when they go out at night. Toby Cecchini is part owner of the bar/gallery Passerby, located in New York’s far west Chelsea neighborhood. He began his bartending career in the mid-eighties at New York’s fabled bar and restaurant Odeon, where he began the Cosmopolitan cocktail revival. Cosmopolitan began as a series of acclaimed diaries in Slate. Cecchini has also written for The New York Times Magazine and the Times’s Style section. He lives in New York City.