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Dirk Hanson

Articles and health studies about drugs, addiction and alcoholism, including the most recent scientific and medical findings.

Showing posts with label writers and alcohol. Show all posts

Showing posts with label writers and alcohol. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Jack London and his Alcoholic Memoirs

Meet John Barleycorn. In the early years of the 20th Century, writer Jack London was the equivalent of a rock star. A ruggedly good-...

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Six Writers Who Battled the Bottle

Book review. In The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking , author Olivia Laing’s stated goal is “to know why writers drink, ...

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Books By Addicts: A Collection

The Up and the Down. (Click titles for full review) Steve Earle and the Ghost of Hank Williams: I’ll Never Get Out of This World Aliv...

Saturday, July 21, 2012

John Berryman and the Poetry of “Irresistible Descent”

“The penal colony’s prime scribe.” “Will power is nothing. Morals is nothing. Lord, this is illness.” —John Berryman, 1971 A year befo...

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