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The Recovering

Sober perspective: Author Leslie Jamison’s new memoir goes deep on artist-addicts, AA, and recovery
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Sober perspective: Author Leslie Jamison’s new memoir goes deep on artist-addicts, AA, and recovery

Leslie Jamison writes in the beginning of The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, “I wanted to know if stories about getting better could ever be as compelling as stories about falling apart. I needed to believe they could.” The author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Empathy Exams struggled with alcohol dependence […]

writerlorne | January 16, 2019

Arts

Sober perspective: Author Leslie Jamison’s new memoir goes deep on artist-addicts, AA, and recovery

Leslie Jamison writes in the beginning of The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, “I wanted to know if stories about getting better could ever be as compelling as stories about falling apart. I needed to believe they could.” The author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Empathy Exams struggled with alcohol dependence […]

writerlorne | January 16, 2019

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