Coffee shops and writers go hand in hand. Famous poets of the 19th century, such as John Keats and Lord Byron, hung out at Antico Caffe Greco in Rome. Ernest Hemingway frequented La Rotonde in Paris. J.K. Rowling penned some of Harry Potter at The Elephant House in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Today, Starbucks has become our own little bastion of literary minds. Go into any Starbucks at any time, and you're bound to see someone furiously typing out what they hope would be the next great American novel or the screenplay to a future Oscar winner.
The greatest authors of our time all probably simultaneously rolled over in their graves at the thought of the most commercial place in the world becoming the contemporary writer hangout. What if they didn't scoff at the Seattle-born coffee chain? What if they embraced it like you and me?
That's what the new Tumblr Literary Starbucks imagines. Run by three students at Carleton College in Minnesota, Literary Starbucks describes how some of the most beloved authors and literary characters would behave during a Starbucks run if they lived in modern times. The authors and characters run the gamut from poetry to novels, mysteries to sci-fi, children's books to epics, each accompanied by a very vivid scene of how they would enter a Starbucks, what they do and, of course, what they would order.
Check out some of the best ones below.
Head over to Literary Starbucks to check out the rest of these imagined Starbucks encounters, and get your full fill of words and caffeine.
