Possible Clues:

• Novelist admits making gin with trivia found in stationary section
• Item for man of letters said to be correcting journal
• Producing a book on dissertation - it's bound to be picked up by a man of letters
• Heard in court and in Government, at times it's what journalists are doing perhaps
• Sounds like it's the right stuff making sense of the letters found in 9 across
• *Stationery