Reading & Drinking
A well crafted story is surprising and intimate, built with intent and great care to stir within you something long buried or hidden away. And, it turns out, a great cocktail will do the same. Every Friday, just in time for Happy Hour and the weekend, you can find a new cocktail post here exploring the urgent matter of reading and drinking. Expect each post to take a brief but intense look at a crafted narrative—whether it be fiction or non-fiction, graphic novel or movie or television series—and pair it with a unique cocktail, suitable and silent, as a companion along your journey. Please, leave a comment if you have one, and questions, too.
I look forward to reading and 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.
