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The Book Examiner makes suggestions for pairing books with wine, beer and cocktails, coming up with recommendations for drinking Pinot Grigio with Emma, Guinness with Ulysses or The Great Gatsby with Gin.
Their rationale:
Classics, high-brow travel writing, brainy literary-type tomes, history, historical novels, food writing, and anything with a reference to Provence in the title are perfect with your red wine of choice; however, to be totally authentic, it’s best to try to drink the wine the characters are enjoying.
I like the idea, but disagree. It’s a much better idea to drink the tipple that the writer, rather than the character, is enjoying. A few suggestions:
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood = Laphroaig whisky
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje = Château Pétrus ($1,500 a bottle)
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson = Sex on the Beach (recipe)
The Rush to Here by George Murray = Blue Star beer
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October 28th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I’d have to agree with this post; it takes a little more research to find out what kinds of drinks the author liked. Hell, there should be a book somewhere dedicated to listing which drinks were the poison of choice for famous authors. Surely it’d be a best-seller, wherever writers gather to drink.
October 28th, 2008 at 10:03 am
I agree with Laura. Forget how to write books. I want a how to drink like an author book. Maybe not as useful to one’s craft but, after enough research, who cares?
October 28th, 2008 at 10:08 am
The sci-fi auuthor Jeff Vandermeer had an ongoing series of authors pairing their novels with a drink. My entry is at [see link above]
I chose Coffee Porter for Shelf Monkey. Mmm. Think I’ll go have one.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I like this idea too, although Hunter S. Thompson books may be hazardous to the health.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I vote for port and Tasha Alexander’s And Only to Deceive….preferably in the company of men while the other ladies have retired to more delicate occupations
October 29th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Holy smokes, Mouser. What if we were studying Thompson, Kerouac and Bukowski with a minor in Oscar Wilde? Time it right and we could take a fast bus to the chaste, innocent city of Baltimore and score a bottle of Cognac off Poes’ grave.