Boston's Best Dive Bars features opinionated reviews of 100 of the grungiest and grittiest drinking establishments in Beantown. If you want to avoid the tourist traps listed in those "other" bar guides and find out where real Bostonians do their drinking, then this is the book for you.

Luke O'Neil has been covering arts and nightlife in Boston for ten years. For years he wrote a popular column called Barcode in The Boston Globe, where he still writes about cocktails and the restaurant and bar scene. He also pens a bar column called Thursty in the Boston Metro, the Liquid column in Stuff Magazine, and has written about bars for Boston Magazine and Black Book.