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Posts by: Erin Khar

Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Lilly Dancyger

By Erin Khar

April 8th, 2021

Lilly Dancyger discusses her debut memoir, NEGATIVE SPACE.

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Tags: addiction, artwork, Burn It Down, drug use, drugs, editing, editors, Erin Khar, family, fathers, fathers and daughters, grief, inherited trauma, Joe Shactman, Lidia Yuknavitch, Lilly Dancyger, memoir, memoir monday, Monograph, mothers, mothers and daughters, Negative Space, parents, Strung Out, visual art, Voices on Addiction

What Toulouse-Lautrec Taught Me about Intimacy

By Erin Khar

March 3rd, 2020

I wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.

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Tags: abortion, addiction, Art, brothels, cheating, control, desire, divorce, drugs, Erin Khar, France, Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, Heroin, infidelity, Intimacy, love, marriage, motherhood, Musee d'Orsay, painting, parenting, paris, pregnancy, recovery, relationships, Sex Workers, sobriety, Strung Out, Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me, Toulouse Lautrec

Erin Khar's debut memoir, Strung Out, has appeared on most anticipated lists from The Rumpus, SELF, Apple Books, Goodreads, Bitch Media, Alma, and others. Of the book, the New York Times writes, "Khar’s buoyant writing doesn’t get mired in her dark subject matter. There is an honesty here that can only come from, to put it in the language of 12-step programs, a 'searching and fearless moral inventory.' This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.” She writes the popular weekly advice column, Ask Erin, and her personal essays have appeared in SELF, Marie Claire, Salon, HuffPost, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and others. She lives in New York City.

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