Reading & Drinking
Where Hobby Meets Happy Hour
A well-crafted piece of art is surprising and intimate, built with intent and great care to stir within you something buried or hidden away. It turns out, a great cocktail will do the same. A few times a month, you can find a new post here exploring the urgent matter of Reading & Drinking. Expect each one to take a brief but intense look at an skillfully-crafted work of art and pair it with a unique cocktail as a guiding companion should you choose to explore the same work that has inspired me. But, 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 or message me on Instagram at @Reading.And.Drinking
I look forward to Reading & Drinking with you.
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.
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.
