Readings & Media

Abraham Lincoln. Address to the Washington Temperance Society of Springfield, Illinois. February 22, 1842. PDF.

Ralph Waldo Emerson. Experience. Excerpt. PDF.

David Sedaris. Why Aren’t You Laughing? Link.

Donald Antrim. Finding a Way Back From Suicide. Link. PDF.

Sarah Resnick. H. Link. PDF.

T. C. Boyle.

• Here Comes. PDF.

• All the Wrecks I’ve Crawled Out Of. PDF.

Raymond Carver.

• Chef’s House. PDF.  Download audio file of story being read by David Means. (Story begins at 4:20).

• Kindling. PDF.

• Where I’m Calling From. Link. PDF.

• Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes. PDF.

F. Scott Fitzgerald.

• Babylon Revisited. Link.

Denis Johnson.

• Car Crash While Hitchhiking, from Jesus’ Son. PDF.

• Beverly Home. PDF.

James Joyce.

• Grace. PDF.

Grace Paley.

• A Conversation With My Father. PDF.

Dorothy Parker.

• Big Blonde. PDF.

Alice Walker.

• To Hell With Dying. PDF.

David Foster Wallace.

• Infinite Jest. Excerpt, endnote 90, pages 1000-1003. PDF.

Johann Hari. Ted Talk: Everything you know about addiction is wrong. Link.

PBS. NOVA: Addiction. Link.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.  Harm Reduction. Link.

Sam Quinones. The New Meth. 10/18/2021. PDF Download.

NYTimes. Psilocybin and Addiction Therapy. 03/31/2022. PDF Download.

Dalai Lama.

• The Book of Joy. Bookshop. BPL.

• The Art of Happiness. Bookshop. BPL.

• Emotional Awareness. Bookshop. BPL.

Donald Antrim

• One Friday in April, A Story of Suicide and Survival. Bookshop. BPL.

Russell Brand

• Recovery. Bookshop. BPL.

Brené Brown.

• The Gifts of Imperfection. Bookshop. BPL.

• Rising Strong. Bookshop. BPL.

David Carr.

• The Night of the Gun. Bookshop. BPL.

Erin Lee Carr.

• All That You Leave Behind. Bookshop. BPL.

Bill Clegg.

• Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man. Bookshop. BPL.

• Ninety Days. Bookshop. BPL.

• Did You Ever Have a Family. Bookshop. BPL.

Carl Erik Fisher.

• The Urge: Our History of Addiction. Bookshop. BPL.

James Frey

• A Million Little Pieces. Bookshop. BPL.

Johann Hari.

• Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression. Bookshop. BPL.

Alan Jacobs.

• Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind. Bookshop. BPL.

John Kabat-Zinn.

• Coming to Our Senses. Bookshop. BPL.

• Full Catastrophe Living. Bookshop. BPL.

• Meditation Is Not What You Think. Bookshop. BPL.

• Mindfulness for All. Bookshop. BPL.

• Mindfulness for Beginners. Bookshop. BPL.

• The Healing Power of Mindfulness. Bookshop. BPL.

• Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. Bookshop. BPL.

Jack Kornfield.

• The Wise Heart. Bookshop. BPL.

Daniel Peres.

• As Needed for Pain. Bookshop. BPL.

Michael Pollan.

• The Trip Treatment. Bookshop. BPL.

Sam Quinones.

• Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. Bookshop. BPL.

Richard Schwartz.

• Introduction to Internal Family Systems. Bookshop. BPL.

Shunryu Suzuki.

• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. Bookshop. BPL.

Mia Szalavitz.

• Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction. Bookshop. BPL.

Bessel van der Kolk

• The Body Keeps the Score. Bookshop. BPL.

• Trauma and Memory. Bookshop. BPL.

Elizabeth Wurtzel.

• Prozac Nation. Bookshop. BPL.

• More Now Again: A Memoir of Addiction. Bookshop. BPL.