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From the Archives: Voices on Addiction: None of This Is Bullshit

  • Sheree L. Greer
  • January 27, 2023
I was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.
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The Isolation of Millennial Life: Ancco’s Nineteen

  • R.A. Frumkin
  • August 11, 2021
Nineteen is a book that’s by turns smart, sad, and scathing.
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Voices on Addiction: Memories of My Daddy and Me(th)

  • Elara Elizabeth Cáceres
  • January 25, 2021
For years, decades even, my father tried to escape meth’s hold.
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Voices on Addiction: Fallen

  • Nicole R. Zimmerman
  • September 22, 2020
There is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Erica C. Barnett

  • Chris Moore
  • August 27, 2020
Erica C. Barnett discusses her debut memoir, QUITTER.
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Voices on Addiction: The Economics of Gentrified Vice

  • Sabra Boyd
  • June 10, 2020
The marijuana shop shimmers from the abyss, a glowing green jewelry box atop the hill.
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Uncomfortable Truths: The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan

  • Anne Graue
  • September 27, 2019
Making it to thirty seems unimaginable, yet it happens anyway.
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Voices on Addiction: Self-Portrait

  • Emily Arnason Casey
  • November 20, 2017
Mother should have told me that booze made a kind of heaven in my body, I thought the first time I felt it.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jerald Walker

  • Alden Jones
  • January 20, 2017
Jerald Walker discusses his memoir, The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult, the story of his childhood in The Worldwide Church of God, and how the act of writing delivered him from bitterness.
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Voices on Addiction: 365 Days without You

  • Rowena Alegría
  • November 11, 2016
The men in my family don’t live long, you foretold. Damn you. Drunks and rock stars don’t grow up.
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Voices on Addiction: The Ghost Inside

  • Kim Derby
  • September 9, 2016
But was I an alcoholic? The idea had never crossed my mind. The more I reflected on it, the less I understood.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jamie Brickhouse

  • Olivia Kate Cerrone
  • June 24, 2016
Jamie Brickhouse discusses Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother, a memoir that chronicles his intimate, near-fatal journey through alcoholism, and living HIV positive.
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