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.
“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
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.
