On booze and art
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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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