{"product_id":"literature-and-libations-noir","title":"Literature and Libations: Noir","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eT\u003cspan\u003ehe wine was already poured when you got there. That's the kind of night this is.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEvery so often, something called Literature \u0026amp; Libations gets a handful of dead writers and a few living wines in a room together and lets them work it out. This time it's noir: Hammett, Chandler, Fleming, and Dorothy B. Hughes. The one the other three still get quietly measured against.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eYou don't need to have read any of it. Nobody checks papers at the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHere's how it lays out. A Cabernet for Hammett, because the man was a real Pinkerton before he was anybody's idea of a writer, and it shows;no wasted words, no wasted wine. A Chardonnay, oily and warm, for the hothouse where Chandler's rich men do their dying. And last, a Zinfandel that tastes exactly like a bad decision.   which is what you'll be having by the time a spy falls for the wrong woman and a killer starts explaining himself, calm as you like, in the first person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRunning the whole operation is Christopher Hoppe, who's spent about as long studying the men who write murder as the ones who commit it on paper:  Gothic literature scholar, detective fiction scholar, and the kind of wine educator who picks a Zinfandel because it tastes like regret.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNobody in this story can be trusted. That's not a warning. That's the invitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSunday, September 27 · 5:00 PM · Q.E.D. Astoria\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHammett · Chandler · Fleming · Hughes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHosted by Christopher Hoppe, Gothic \u0026amp; Detective Fiction Scholar\u003cbr\u003eBring an alibi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Event","offers":[{"title":"General Admission","offer_id":54844378054869,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5561\/files\/Noir_Poster_White_Print_2.jpg?v=1788663332","url":"https:\/\/qedastoria.com\/products\/literature-and-libations-noir","provider":"Q.E.D. Astoria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}