Category: Sober living
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Carrie Fisher, Augusten Burroughs, Leslie Jamison: 15 great recovery memoirs
For now I’ll mention one more convention of addiction memoirs, although it differs slightly from the others because it’s more directly concerned with how they’re read than with how they’re written. The pleasures we expect from the form range from the edifying (empathy, inspiration) to the unseemly (voyeurism, vicarious transgression) alcoholic memoirs to mention just…