This post originally appeared on Food Riot, but we’ve got some foodie love over here too, right? As for pairing, let’s read it while eating raw milk cheese and kimchi and sour beer and sourdough (though not all together as I’ll … Continue reading
I’m a few weeks late for this rather St. Patrick’s Day themed post, but isn’t it more exciting to extend the Irish celebrations out? If you’re looking for a fun read that’s also packed with ancient Irish mythology (and aren’t … Continue reading
Are you ready for this one? Let’s mash Arabic mythology, including the jinn, with computer hacking and technology. With me so far? G. Willow Wilson’s Alif the Unseen starts with a man forcing a story from a jinn, a book that … Continue reading
Hobbits “like to laugh and eat (six meals a day) and drink” and well, dwarves aren’t much different. Take this opening scene from The Hobbit: “‘A little red wine, I think, for me.’ ‘And for me,’ said Thorin. ‘And raspberry … Continue reading
“I’m not a bad guy” starts off Junot Diaz’s latest This Is How You Lose Her–a collection of connected short stories that catalog the previous relationships of our narrator, Yunior. At one point, he calls it “the cheater’s guide to … Continue reading
Ridley “Bit” Stone, a middle-aged man, finds himself back in the community where he grew up–Arcadia, a hippie commune in northern New York state–after the community has fallen apart. “If he listens closely, over the wind against the screens and … Continue reading
Here’s one thing I particularly like about fiction–its ability to go back into history and rewrite the parts that are missing. Too often the accounts of battles and military tactics overtake the daily lives of the people who actually lived … Continue reading
