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2018 · 27037 — <p>Wine Literature . Wine Reads. A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing. Edited by Jay McInerney. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In this anthology Jay McInerney novelist and wine columnist selects over twenty pieces of memorable fiction and nonfiction about the making selling and of course drinking of fine wine. Including excerpts from novels short fiction memoir and narrative nonfiction Wine Reads features big names in the trade and literary heavyweights alike. We follow Kermit Lynch to the Northern Rhône in a chapter from his classic Adventures on the Wine Route. In an excerpt from Between Meals long-time New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling raises feeding and imbibing on a budget in Paris into something of an art form and discovers a very good rosé from just west of the Rhone. Michael Dibdin's fictional Venetian detective Aurelio Zen gets a lesson in Barolo Barbaresco and Brunello vintages from an eccentric celebrity. </p> Atlantic Monthly Press, hardcover