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Indulging in Literary Spirits

On January 30, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

What’s with various print media developing food and drink equivalents to literary writers, books, and characters? New Yorker’s The Book Bench and The Guardian’s BooksBlog do it. Every week, Lit Spirits, a weekly feature for Book Bench, employs their “resident mixologist” to “pair cocktails with characters from literature.” And the Guardian, similarly, has actively engaged commenters in a debate as to what type of coffee Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk would be.

The idea is astonishingly frivolous for such intellectual and journalistic forums. My first thought pegged this exercise an attempt [...]

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