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.
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I look forward to Reading & Drinking with you.
Orange World: and Other Stories — Existing Between Comfort & Danger
“Karen Russell’s Orange World, taken in its entirety, sets itself, as the Times alluded to, between wild and tame; between safety and danger. Or, as the title story explains the distinction, these stories are “where most of us live,” between “Green World, a fantasy realm of soft corners” and the bleak, infant decapitation dangers of Red World. This collection explores that middle space most of us live in of the Orange World with magical realism adding the salt of uniqueness into every story.
