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At The Bold Italic, Bucky Sinister writes about living in San Francisco after getting sober, how he learned to do things without drinking, and his newfound ability to follow through on creative impulses.
“Most importantly for me, I began creating again.
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Al-Anon sucked. If I hadn’t been too broke for therapy, I’d never have taken a friend’s advice to attend those awful meetings. They were worse than the AA meetings I’d been to over the years in support of my string of alcoholic boyfriends—three, if you’re keeping count.
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Joshua Mohr’s second novel returns to the seedy side of San Francisco, where the addicted and the lost search for redemption.
Michelle Wildgen’s second novel traces the residents of a sustainable-food co-op through crises, adjustments, and reinventions.Tom Shone has been studying writers who have quit drinking. He’s doing it, of course, for a novel he’s writing. How meta. Still, he gives us some interesting anecdotes.
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