Fiction Pick of the Week: "Basement Miracles"
Observations from an AA meeting.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines, and Dope Fiends
The rise and fall of Synanon, an addiction-recovery cult in California, and its charismatic leader, a one-time homeless wino named Chuck Dederich who taught his followers to berate each other for therapy.
Secret of AA
A psychological, historical and neurological look at Alcoholics Anonymous.
Inside David Foster Wallaces Private Self-Help Library
Text from the books and Foster Wallace’s corresponding annotations:
Along with all the Wittgenstein, Husserl and Borges, he read John Bradshaw, Willard Beecher, Neil Fiore, Andrew Weil, M. Scott Peck and Alice Miller. Carefully.
