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.
Lesser Known Monsters (and Cocktails) of the 21st Century
Cocktails for Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, written by Kim Fu and published by Tin House, are as unique as the collections stories and include caviar and sleep aids. The collection itself is a blunderbuss blast of modern anxious, existential issues presented in twelve speculative fiction short stories that oscillate between genre, from sci-fi and fantasy into horror and even finding their way into a whodunit mystery and erotica.
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before: “A Duck Walks Into A Bar”
“A Duck Walks into a Bar”, written by Joshua Bohnsack and published at AGNI, is a feel-good story about a mom, her autistic son, and a classic joke that defies the literary story’s all too common interest in the darker side of people. The cocktail inspired by it, Quackers & Juice, is also light in nature. A riff on a Garibaldi, this cocktail uses Apple Juice, Vermouth, and Goldfish-Infused Gin.
The Five Cocktails & Stages of Thanksgiving Day Grief
Looking for bourbon and sangria cocktails perfect for Thanksgiving or just trying to cope with the Holiday itself? Either way, you've found yourself on the right website. For this 2019 Thanksgiving Holiday retrospective, I take a look at the five stages of Thanksgiving Day Grief and the five cocktails inspired by them.
