JOIN ME on a Facebook Live event with writer David W. Brown and Cavalier House Books at 6:30 EST Saturday, April 24th. Please RSVP.

David’s THE MISSION is creative non-fiction about the NASA team behind the Europa Clipper mission. Together, we are going to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with partners Michelle and John Cavalier. David and I will also talk space missions and the writing life. Nerdy NASA swag not required—but always encouraged.

signature cocktail: The Europa*

• 1-1/2 ounces bourbon

• 1 ounce dry vermouth

• 1 ounce Campari

• 1 ounce blood orange juice

• drop of honey

• blood orange slice

*Spotted in the wild by foodie and writer Action Cookbook

I was inspired by blood oranges and David’s descriptions:
“Looking down and to the horizon, an astronaut on Europa is casting her eyes across a postapocalyptic Antarctica: an endless tundra of gashed ice. In places, it is snowman white—the stuff of pure water. Elsewhere, it is sepia, seared and poisoned by the radiation belt into which Europa is submerged. Those gashes: in shadows they are cinnamon, scarlet, sienna, and they break up the landscape as though the whole world had been smashed on a marble floor and then reassembled haphazardly. There are steep cliffs and deep troughs and Grand Canyons of ice the color of prison cells.”

David W. Brown is a writer from New Orleans, Louisiana. You can find his work at The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Vox, and Smithsonian, among many other places.

Cavalier House Books
Denham Springs Antique Village
100 N Range Ave, Denham Springs, LA 70726

The last Saturday in April is Indie Bookstore Day and we are celebrating with partners Michelle and John Cavalier!