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Pairing Books and Beer: a Special Guest-Post of Novels 'n' Bottles by Sam Calagione

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Yesterday we posted about sharing a page of New York magazine with Woody Harrelson and Marilyn Monroe, and picturing Vonnegut pulled up to the bar with Woody and Marilyn. So what better topic to write about today than the wonderful kinship of beer and books? We'll start with a poem called "Lines on Ale" by the third baseman for the American Canons, Edgar Allan Poe. "Lines on Ale" Fill with mingled cream and amber     I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber     Through the chamber of my brain - Quaintest thoughts - queerest fancies     Come to life and...

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Walt Whitman T-Shirts: the jersey and Walt's With Me

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Novel-T is crazy about Walt Whitman. We're so crazy for Whitman, in fact, that we offer two Walt Whitman t-shirts: our standard Walt Whitman jersey and our Walt's With Me special edition tee shirt. Whitman is taught less and less in high schools, so fewer readers are encountering him these days. If you don't know where to start, consider "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" and "Song of Myself." No matter how many times we've done it, reading those poems always puts us in a good mood. We're also put in a good mood when we discover other folks that are ecstatic about...

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Book T-Shirts or Literary T-Shirts?

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At Novel-T, we like to think of our shirts as "literary t-shirts" or "literary t-shirt jerseys" or "literary jerseys." But there are many who prefer a simpler a name: "book t-shirts"--or even the super-succinct "book shirts." The appellation "book t-shirts" has its merits. It's simple in just the way that the best writing is: straightforward and succinct. There's no haughtiness there.   But some of our shirts are not "about books" so much as they're about authors.  Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn each appear in two books each. Still, we suppose they are book t-shirts. But our Poe shirts are...

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