Reading & Drinking
Where Hobby Meets Happy Hour

A few times a month, you can find a new post here exploring the urgent matters of Reading & Drinking. These posts will take a brief but intense look at a skillfully-crafted story, book, or other medium and pair it with a unique cocktail. Sometimes, too, you may find some opinion pieces here but, in that case, at the least you’ll have a cocktail in hand.

If you have suggestions, for works or spirits or cocktails, send me an email at BTimm.Writing@gmail.com, DM me on Instagram at @Reading.And.Drinking, or find me on Bluesky at Readinganddrinking.bsky.social.

I look forward to Reading & Drinking with you.

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Over the Garden Wall and Cocktails from The Unknown

“In its 110-minute run-time, Over The Garden Wall joins the allegory of Dante’s Inferno with the narrative elements of a Bildungsroman to create a coming-of-age story fit for both children and adults about stepping into The Unknown, facing their deepest fears embodied in The Beast, and coming through to the other side, changed for the better, with help from those who love them.

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“Shit Face”: Everyone Out of the Pool

“Shit Face” by Amy Lynne McKenzie, and published online at The Kenyon Review, is a maximalist dervish hellbent on whirling you towards it’s clever emotional twist and what remains after the dust settles is a story that gobsmacks and wounds, leaving you blindsided by the unexpected but well-earned turn of events. Devil’s Night is a Daiquiri of sorts that uses a compound syrup made from Daily’s Strawberry Daiquiri, and a Habanero Tincture brings some sweet heat to mix

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