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Every good bar merits a good storyteller, and here are 10 books about 10 saloons that got what they deserved.
Jon Michaud is the author of Last Call at Coogan’s: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar. He is the Collection Management Librarian at the Millburn Free Public Library in Milburn, N.J.. His debut novel When Tito Loved Clara (Algonquin) was named a best book of the year by The Barnes & Noble Review and was a finalist for the Writer’s Center First Novel Prize. Michaud was the head librarian at The New Yorker from 2003-2012 and the head librarian at the Center for Fiction from 2015-2017. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Tin House, LitHub, CrimeReads, and numerous other publications. The recipient of a 2022 fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, Michaud lives in Maplewood, N.J. with his wife and two sons. An American citizen, he was nonetheless the Irish junior javelin champion in 1983.