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Apples are a common theme in North Woods by Daniel Mason. My cocktail for the podcast was a Jack Rose using Laird's AppleJack (apple brandy...

Amor Towles hits the mark again with his newest book, Table for Two . Towles set this table with seven appetizer-sized short stories filled...

If you've read Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver you know that it takes place in the rural backwoods of Virginia--specifically Lee Cou...

The book this week is Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep. The drink for this episode is a homage t...

In The Last Kings of Shanghai, author Jonathan Kaufman brings to life the over-the-top character of Victor Sassoon and the cosmopolitan nig...

In my discussion with Nick Bowers about A Walk in the Woods, I made a Moscow Mule (because Nick and his girlfriend were pack mules on the t...

The world created by Gary Braver in Rumor of Evil was definitely dark and dangerous. For the book discussion, I felt like a Dark and Stormy...

When reading Rogue Heroes, I envisioned all of the British officers lounging in a desert oasis. 

My cocktail for A Gentleman in Moscow was a Brick Wall, also known as a Paper Plane.