Comments on: Booze and Books

By: Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » Penney Wins the Theakston’s

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:22:03 +0000

[...] of Theakston’s, Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves (2007) has won yet another accolade: [...]

By: Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » Journalist Slights Novelists

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:14:18 +0000

[...] A Booklist Blog Keir Graff, Booklist Online’s Senior Editor, writes candidly about books, book reviewing, and the publishing industry « Booze and Books [...]

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:20:30 +0000

How did I miss this post? Here are more:

Drumnadrochit with Lawrence Block’s The Burglar in the Library, or any of the Bernie Rhodenbarr novels (it’s Bernie’s favorite single malt and plays a role in the plot).

Iron Horse champagne with Robert B. Parker (it’s Hawk’s favorite domestic sparkly).

Gimlets with The Long Goodbye (Terry Lennox’s favorite drink)

Plymouth gin with John D. MacDonald (Travis McGee will only drink Plymouth).

And so many more. I’ll get back to you.

By: Cake and Bibliobeverages « Bibliotannic

Cake and Bibliobeverages « Bibliotannic — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:54:42 +0000

[...] in my ALA e-newsletter, there was a link to this post – http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/07/15/booze-and-books/ – that I thought was a really good idea, and being the wino that I am, thought to challenge myself [...]

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:43:10 +0000

Whisky with Micky Spillane!

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:20:16 +0000

Oh, I'm saving this post as fodder for the literary cocktail party I've always wanted to host. Mint juleps work for Fitzgerald, too, for the scene where they're all hanging out in Manhattan in Gatsby. And Jack Rose cocktails from The Sun Also Rises. And perhaps a cup of sack in honor of Falstaff.

By: Nina

Nina — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:29:06 +0000

how about …

bathtub gin with fitzgerald
bacardi with hemingway
scotch with burns
summer ale with tolkien
vodka with solzhenitsyn and pasternak

By: Keir

Keir — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:56:31 +0000

Ah, yes, Theakston’s Old Peculier…I remember it well from my time in a bookshop on Charing Cross Road, where I was introduced to it by a Yorkshireman named Simon. Great stuff!

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:55:23 +0000

Melrose Plant (Martha Grimes’ Inspector Jury series) inspired me to try ‘Old Peculier’, a beer which really is best at room temperature.
Amanda Cross’ Prof. Kate Fansler inspired me to try (and like) Laphroaig.

By: Keir

Keir — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:31:13 +0000

Good one. Creepy, but good.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:04:45 +0000

Milk with A Clockwork Orange?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:16:00 +0000

English Brown Ale or Bitter with any book from the Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter!

By: Keir

Keir — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:58:22 +0000

Consider yourself indulged. Any more imbibers out there? I’m going to add “hot toddies with Dickens” due to some ill-remembered scene where his characters drink hot toddies made with mugs of gin warmed by a hot poker.

By: George Eberhart

George Eberhart — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:48:50 +0000

Please indulge me in a few more:

Absinthe with Baudelaire and Rimbaud (de rigeur!)

Jax Beer with A Confederacy of Dunces

A light Rioja with Don Quixote

Mint juleps with Gone with the Wind

Dandelion wine with Ray Bradbury

Yellow Tail with Arthur W. Upfield

Coke Zero with Sartre’s Being and Nothingness