Posts Tagged: Alcoholics Anonymous
Voices on Addiction: Fallen
There is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
...moreVoices on Addiction: A Conversation with Erica C. Barnett
Erica C. Barnett discusses her debut memoir, QUITTER.
...moreMagic Numbers: A Story of Wanting in Pairs
Find and replace. Food for alcohol. Daughter for dad.
...moreVoices on Addiction: All the Ways to Save Your Life
But we can make choices if we want to live. I believe that.
...moreThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #165: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
...moreVoices on Addiction: Duet
I trust, nowadays. I have to keep at it
...moreBreathing into the Paper Bag: Talking with Jenny Valentish
Jenny Valentish discusses her memoir, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCES.
...moreENOUGH: The Forgotten Women
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreVoices on Addiction: A Review of The Recovering
As recovering addicts, we must love ourselves back to the source, love our shameful bits and decimations and not just our reconciliations and resurrections.
...moreThe Outsider: A Conversation with Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea discusses her forthcoming collection, Against Memoir, out tomorrow from Amethyst Editions/The Feminist Press.
...moreThe Delusion of Objectivity: Talking with Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison discusses The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, understanding that every text is incomplete, and whether motherhood has changed her writing.
...moreThe Truth About Lying
My gut is a red, fiery drum, a beacon of rosy light. My instinct to run is a bright radioactive pink arrow, a bloody blade. I was correct.
...moreVoices on Addiction: The Only Thing That Has to Change Is Everything
The word rehab is short for rehabilitate, which means to restore to a former capacity. Like houses, I remember thinking. Demo the kitchen. Tear down the walls.
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