On booze and art
Roz Dineen on the time-stained image of the artist-addict, The Recovering by Leslie Jamison, and whether \u201cstories about getting better [can] ever be as compelling as stories about falling apart"; "David Foster Wallace would send me letters and I wouldn\u2019t answer them. He would send works in progress with forlorn notes. 'You\u2019re under no obligation to read or to pretend you\u2019ve read the enclosed,' he wrote on one piece. I didn\u2019t." \u2013 David Streitfeld recalls being David Foster Wallace's "worst friend"
Books
The Recovering by Leslie Jamison
In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close encounters with addiction by Gabor Mat\xe9
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