Recommended weekend reading: Walker Percy’s “Bourbon, Neat.”
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“Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.”
By Nick Moran posted at 3:00 pm on January 28, 2012 1
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Nick Moran is the social media editor for The Millions. He was born in Hoboken, NJ and he returned there after graduating from the University of Miami. Before leaving the publishing industry, he worked for Norton, John Wiley & Sons, and Oxford University Press. His interests can be followed on his Tumblr, Nick Recommends and Twitter, @nemoran3.
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at 6:17 am on January 31, 2012
Superb! Thanks Nick.