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.

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.

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