Senior Contributor Tony Harte reviews John Callahan’s fiercely irreverent memoir, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot. Callahan’s story dismantles the idea that one devastating consequence automatically produces sobriety—or that recovery turns every complicated person into an inspirational hero.
Senior Contributor Tony Harte reviews Euphoric Recall, Aidan Martin’s unflinching memoir about growing up in Scotland, surviving trauma and finding recovery from addiction. The book challenges the selective memories that can make past substance use appear safer and more appealing than it really was.
Laura Clery’s What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Hotter is a funny, vulnerable and occasionally uncomfortable account of divorce, single motherhood, dating and staying sober when life refuses to follow the script.
Senior Contributor Tony Harte reviews The Acts of Kenny Lambert by Kurt Rasmussen, an introspective novel about alcoholism, identity and one man’s uneasy entrance into recovery. Despite uneven pacing and an unresolved spiritual conflict, its final act delivers a compelling portrait of self-deception and change.
We opened this one up to everybody. Members, readers, the sober curious, the person who found us through a Brad…
That book in your head isn’t writing itself. Tawny Lara’s fall writing room runs Tuesdays and Thursdays, September 22 through November 19, with guided prompts, focused writing time, and a community of writers who get it.
Aerosmith accidentally invented recovery coaching in the 1980s. Forty years later, coach Stephanie Hazard wrote the first mainstream book about it. Our #QUITLIT review of Making Sobriety Stick, including the Sobees score and the one chapter written for readers with decades of sobriety.
Evan Cason’s memoir, *Beyond the Street Lamp*, offers a sincere look at the journey from gang life to sobriety. In her review, Patti Clark highlights the book’s heartfelt nature while also noting its structural challenges. Cason’s story is a poignant reminder of the power of vulnerability and honesty in the recovery journey.
Getting sober can mean rebuilding your social life from the ground up. Anne Marie Cribbin explores the rise of “third places” — coffee shops, run clubs, bookstores, gardens and other community spaces — and why belonging, not alcohol, may be what we were searching for all along.
Three memoirs came out this year from three people who could not be more different, and every one of them was writing about the same thing. We pulled the Sober Curator readers into a room and made them score it.
The BACKSTAGE Book Club | Read Receipts READ RECEIPTS The Backstage Book Club. Second Sunday of every month. Somewhere in…
Anna David’s Legacy Launch Pad Publishing is helping entrepreneurs, media personalities, and recovery voices turn their stories into books. Here are the Quit Lit and recovery titles from Legacy Launch Pad that belong on your sober bookshelf.
There is a version of sober content that is essentially homework. A reading list of recovery memoirs. A podcast subscription…
Imagine if Sex and the City’s Samantha was an addict and her drug of choice was men. Go on a hilarious,…
Maia Szalavitz’s “Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction” lives up to its title. It doesn’t simply reframe…
#QUITLIT, WRITTEN FROM THE INSIDE OUT: Celebrating the Sober Curator Contributors Who Literally Wrote the Book(s) on Recovery There’s a…
What does it mean to be “the most human”? In “The Most Human”, Adam Nimoy invites readers into a deeply…
Some books are tough to review because of the writing itself. Others are challenging because of the uncomfortable truths they…
You might know Kid Cudi from his song “Pursuit of Happiness”, one of his earliest hits. Interestingly, the song was…
It’s Recovery Month, and what better way to celebrate than finally writing that quit lit book? Ever wondered how to…
I cried as an alcoholic. I cried as a mother. I cried as a 41-year-old woman raising a nearly three-year-old child, reading…
Some memoirs are polished and carefully curated, offering up sanitized trauma for easy consumption. Rabbit is not that book. Patricia…
Your quit lit story is a big deal. It’s raw, it’s real and it’s yours. But unless you’re Beyoncé —…
Fentanyl, Inc. by Ben Westhoff is a harrowing deep dive into the world of synthetic drugs, focusing on fentanyl. This…
By the time Beth Macy’s Dopesick was published in 2018, the opioid crisis had already claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of…
Hannah Sward is the celebrated author of “Strip: A Memoir.” On this episode of the Sober Curator Podcast, she shares with host…
In a world that never seems to stop spinning, our minds often mirror the frenetic pace. Amy Liz-Harrison, host of…
Picture of Me, written by Thomas Laurence, is a 157-page journey through anger, grief, depression, and addiction told in poetry…
In the latest episode of the Sober Curator Podcast, hosted by Alysse Bryson, guests Tawny Lara and Lisa Smith dive…
With initial reviews like “Fentanyl Nation is a gripping, powerful, and profoundly useful book about a truly historic crisis” by Dr. Carl…
