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The Edible Woman

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Arts & Culture

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Jane Austen’s ascendency to the rank of currency has inspired our friends at AbeBooks to suggest a series of literary bills. Perhaps our favorite is this Margaret Atwood $20 note—not least because it is she who once wrote, in Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, that “the primary wealth is food, not money.”

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JK Rowling on the UK’s £20

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Hunter S. Thompson on the US $100 note