My quest for coffee stories yields not a latte

On International Coffee Day, the scarcity of java-inspired stories continues to baffle me

Note: I consulted ChatGPT for assistance in researching literary references to coffee.

Like many of my fellow writers, my brain runs on coffee. It takes a couple of cups of flavorful, strongly brewed dark roast to prep me for the writing flow. I’m on my third cup of the morning as I sit down to write this, and will probably pause at some point to pour a fourth.

As popular as coffee is among Americans–it is, by far, our nation’s most popular drink, according to Coffeenatics–the magical elixir it does not seem to figure prominently in our literature.

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Feast your eyes on these recent publications

Nibble on these morsels published recently in The Argyle Literary Magazine’s “gastronomy” issue

Earlier this month, a couple of my pieces were published in The Argyle Literary Magazine‘s special “gastronomy” issue. As the title of this themed issue makes clear, the stories, poems, and creative nonfiction pieces of this issue all have something to do with cooking or eating food.

I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read my contributions, which are companion pieces of a sort:

I hope you’ll also take the time to feast on some of the other delicious writings in this special issue and read more from The Argyle‘s previous issues.

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