Reading out of place

[bekah]

Just out of common decency,  I think an author should be dead before 
he gets a bar named after him/her (unless it's his own place).   I'd 
love to see a  T. Coraghessan's somewhere - Santa Barbara?  But ...  

There are Hemingway bars (Paris)  and bars called "Papa's."  There 
are lots of Fitzgerald's,  but I'm not betting on how many of the 
bartenders would even know of F. Scott.    Steinbeck has a coffee bar 
at Cannery Row.   There's no Nabokov's but there are plenty of 
Lolita's.  (that does *not* counts!!) (sheesh)

Virginia Woolf's got a place in her honor in London.

Kate Chopin?  Chopin's Place?  (Naaa ... even if I'd suspect that she 
did quaff her share)

Bekah

At 6:00 PM +0100 9/3/06, James Kyllo wrote:
>Are there many pubs at all named after writers? (Other than
>Shakespeare).  One local here was called the George Orwell for a
>while.. but it looked more like 1984 the year than the book.  Will
>people somewhere one day be able to slip out for a swift half at the
>Thomas Pynchon?
>
>
>On 9/3/06, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>I don't imagine that a pub named after Charles Dickens would be much fun.
>>
>>Dark and dingy and filled with coal smoke? Probably.
>>
>>Fun? Not likely, except maybe at Christmas.
>>
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