Roger Ebert's Other Illness
The film critic wrote candidly—and controversially—about his alcoholism
“This blog has become a venue for my truths," Roger Ebert wrote in 2011 on his website, a must-read for those of us who loved the voice Ebert found once cancer robbed him of his ability to speak. READ MORE >>
My favorite two sentences in the Alcoholics Anonymous literature are: “Alcoholics Anonymous does not demand that you believe anything. All of its twelve steps are but suggestions.” When a drunk at the end of his tether, Bill Wilson, founded Alcoholics Anonymous in the late 1930s—a spiritual program based on meeting with other addicts—there was a fundamental humility to his ideology: It might work for some. READ MORE >>
Gangsta’s Paradise: Dennis Lehane Goes One Noir Too Far
My Alcoholic Holiday Season
The Battle Over Addiction
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