In this novel, fifty year old June Reid is faced with the irreconcilable deaths of every person in her family—a fate she was spared from by pure happenstance Read More
"For years, I tried to control my drinking and my drug use, and I nearly lost my life because of it. I hurt many people in that deluded thrashing. In the writing of these two books, which has taken up all of my free time for the last six years, I think--coming to the end--I felt a real sense of closure..."
Writer and literary agent Bill Clegg took some time to talk with Lambda about his new memoir, Ninety Days, his "relationship" with New York City, and the trials of staying sober. Read More
Clegg has made relapse the subject and not recovery the subject. That self-proclaimed emphasis is this book’s great strength because the question posed from the very beginning of whether or not he’s going to do crack again or drink again is never really answered. In a large way, this is a book about not finding the answer, when most memoirs are poised to do the exact opposite... Read More
It is with a sense of shame that I admit I approached Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man...
Since its release last month, Bill Clegg’s memoir Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man has been on a...
