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Shake It Up! Vintage Cocktails Are Ripe For Revival

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American bartender Harry Craddock mixes a drink at the Savoy Hotel in London in 1926. Craddock is known for helping to popularize the Corpse Reviver, one of the drinks featured in historian Lesley Blume's book about vintage cocktail culture.

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Lesley M. M. Blume is an author, journalist and cultural observer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Vanity Fair and Slate.

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It's the holiday season and for some people that means celebrating with friends, family and cocktails. But instead of settling for the standard martini or Manhattan, author and historian Lesley Blume suggests you reach for a taste of bygone cocktail culture.

In Let's Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition, Blume outlines more than 100 lesser-known oldies that are both delicious and delightful. She joins NPR's David Greene to discuss cocktail history and how to make vintage recipes part of a modern-day party.

4:17 pm

Wed December 26, 2012

Teenage Disconnect And 'The Virgin Suicides'

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Tavi Gevinson is the editor-in-chief of Rookie Magazine.

6:03 am

Tue December 18, 2012

Don't Hide Your Harlequins: In Defense Of Romance

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4:03 am

Tue December 18, 2012

Romantic Reads From Shakespeare To Steampunk (Heavy On The Steam)

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By Eloisa James

Originally published on Sun December 23, 2012 9:41 am

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My favorite "best of the year" list is the Bad Sex in Fiction award, even — or perhaps because — it eschews the romance genre. This year's winner was just announced: Nancy Huston's Infrared, whose heroine celebrates the "countless treasures between [her] legs." But I'm not writing a Best Romance of the Year list, because I don't think the idea even works for my genre.

4:03 am

Mon December 17, 2012

3 Books To Read Before The End Of The World

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By Ben H. Winters

According to the adherents of the 2012 apocalypse theory, rooted in a controversial reading of ancient Mayan numerology, Earth is going to break into pieces and/or be consumed by a solar flare and/or disappear into a black hole on Dec. 21, right before Christmas.

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Thu December 27, 2012