Addiction Memoirs

xp yikes, well I will keep such impulses to myself in future

I suppose I feel uneasy with the genre per se because I’ve never had a life-overturning addiction so it feels vicarious to me, that book pretty much leveraged that sentiment

I'm pretty sure lots of people read that book before the truth came out because they did have experience of addiction

I worked for David Carr some years ago. Much missed.

Yeah, I didn't know him, but miss his radio comments, esp. when as an On The Media contributor. Oh one I forgot is Mary Karr's Lit. She starts by masterfully interpolating elements her previous two memoirs, building towards the era when she seemed most overtly into the work-drink cycle, self-medicating to deal with depressive tendencies tied in with her weird-ass parents (very warm and well-meaning in their preoccupied ways, but father was a stone barstool alkie and Mom was seemingly capricious like the weather/secretly motivated to begin with, turned out). Also her teen vagabond years out West before becoming Poet Laureate of Minneapolis and then a competent writer, according to her---the better the writing, also actually holding down a fulfilling job and having an excellent husband and baby, the worse the drinking.
Stuff about rehab wow, but eventually things are better. Although, "I think we can see who was the asshole in the marriage." She doesn't mean him.
(Her The Art of Memoir, based on her teaching as well as writing experience, is also a pretty awesome read (typically, she doesn't spare herself for having swallowed doubts about, and even recommending, a Holocaust memoir that turned out to be fraud)

Think exact quote was more like, "It's clear who the asshole in the marriage was."