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.
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.
Author Austin Rampt joins Bill and Mike on Sober Not Mature for a raw, funny and deeply honest conversation about addiction, multiple overdoses, life in Mexico, recovery and his memoir, *One Last Hit*. His story is proof that even after years of chaos, a completely different life is possible.
In Drunk Daddy, Trixie Rose tells the story of growing up with an alcoholic father and the emotional survival strategies that followed her into adulthood. Amy Liz Harrison reviews this short, funny and quietly devastating addition to the Bad Memoir series.
I listened to the audiobook on Audible, in Austin’s own voice, while I was packing up my house and cleaning out decades of accumulated life. Austin Rampt’s One Last Hit is eight rehab programs, a decade of active addiction, and one of the more honest addiction memoirs you will find. 3.5 out of 5 Sobees.
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