Author Joshua Ferris loves a good screwed-up character. His first novel, "Then We Came to the End," chronicles an advertising firm full of strange and dysfunctional employees. Now, he's following up the bestseller and National Book Award finalist with "The Unnamed" -- a tragic tale of a seemingly normal family man whose life is destroyed by his compulsive need to walk.

Asylum also shares a fascination for effed-up people, so we invited Ferris to grab a drink at the Brooklyn Public House in New York. He was kind enough not only to accept but offer up a story about his mother's sage advice regarding profanity in literature. That, and many more tidbits of wholesomeness in our latest "Asylum Drinks With Writers."
Drinks with Writers: Joshua Ferris

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