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August 2022

August 26, 2022

“No Promises”: I wrote about AA and Sister Booze

for Plough: Alcoholism often reveals itself first in broken promises. If you are lucky, these...

July 2022

July 25, 2022

Bright Light City Gonna Set My Soul On Fire: I watch Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis”

I had to watch this thing, even though I didn't know what interesting thing there...

September 2021

September 01, 2021

Like It’s My Jōb: Short movie reviews

Raging Bull: I watched this rise-and-fall boxer epic because Victor loves it so much. And...

March 2021

March 01, 2021

The Long Shadow of the 1990s: A short movie note

I recently watched 17 Blocks on streaming. This is a documentary shot over almost twenty...

November 2020

November 09, 2020

Do You Die?: Two book notes

Last week my time travel rosary ticked over into 2012, The Year I Quit Drinking....

November 02, 2020

Discomfort Watch

Back in the last years of what they call "my drinking career" there were a...

June 2020

June 13, 2020

“God Has a Future for You”: My interview on gay Catholic whatnot

over at Catholic Mental Heath: Would you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit...

April 2020

April 20, 2020

What recovery culture can teach us about the meaning of work: I’m in America

magazine, though also country: “Things began to come together. I got a job scrubbing toilets,...

November 2019

November 12, 2019

The Fifth Step as “Sacrament of Friendship”

...and other thoughts from my talk at Notre Dame. I was there to talk about...

February 2019

February 15, 2019

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Some notes on Mary of Egypt

If you are up-front about your experience of either addiction, or let's say marginalized sexuality,...

December 2018

December 29, 2018

Romance Is Not a Children’s Game: Short book and movie reviews

A motley assortment, although I guess they do all roughly fit the post title. Camille...

November 2018

November 26, 2018

I review Michelle Tea’s “Against Memoir”

at The Week: Any book titled Against Memoir will inevitably be a descent into the...

October 2018

October 18, 2018

“I’LL SELF-CARE WHEN I SELF-DIE” And Other Small Brilliances of “BoJack Horseman”

In which St Francis de Sales watches season 5 of the depressed-horse show and exclaims,...

July 2018

July 08, 2018

Is Recovery Anti-Literary? I review the new Leslie Jamison memoir/literary analysis

for AmCon: When Leslie Jamison realized she had to quit drinking, she was also giving...

April 2018

April 13, 2018

I review “Addiction & Devotion in Early Modern England”

a book crafted, it would seem, utterly and precisely pour moi: The first addicts to...

December 2017

December 13, 2017

Work Is a Four-Letter Word: I review “The Animators”

at First Things: It may be gauche to say that novels should be moral tales;...

December 11, 2017

Counting Days

Some notes on Advent & addiction. I've said before that David Carr's Night of the...

November 2017

November 14, 2017

Let Him Be Filthy Still: “Wise Blood” & “Home”

By coincidence I read Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood for the first time right before reading...

October 2017

October 12, 2017

A Girl in Love

I recently watched Writer of O, the 2004 documentary about Pauline Reage/Dominique Aury/Anne Desclos, the...

September 2017

September 22, 2017

BoJack Adultman: A few extra notes on season 4

So I wrote this ridiculously emo, "all my tattoos are Catholic!!!!"-type piece about the new...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

99 Dreams I Have Had, Every One a Red Heifer: I read “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”

So I finally read Michael Chabon's novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and in spite of...

June 05, 2017

Post-Demon Stress Syndrome: Some horror-flick reviews

Stake Land: A teenage boy and his grizzled mentor travel north through a vampire-ridden, devastated...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

As They Liked It: Playing Shakespeare in the Early ’80s

The BBC has this great series, "Playing Shakespeare," in which John Barton leads members of...

December 04, 2016

I Think of You and Let It Go: Best Books I Read in 2016

Realized everybody's doing best-of-books in time for Christmas buying. I'll do a complete best-of post...

November 2016

November 12, 2016

“Cocktail Theology”: William Dailey

at First Things: That brings us to the most important spiritual aspect of cocktail culture:...

November 08, 2016

Assisted Suffering

So, I voted. Remember how I said my ballot would be a fractal of civic...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Return to Osmia, Or The Resurrection of the Nose

Concussion Diary, Week Four I Think. (Previously, on "Concussion Diary"...) First of all, it's weird...

October 08, 2016

“Distilled Knowledge”: My friend’s book about the science of drinkin’

got a write-up in the Boston Globe! In his senior year at Yale University, Brian...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

For There’s Nothing Original in Me/Except Original Sin: A Birthday Book Meme

I really enjoyed Melinda Selmys's list of the twenty books that have shaped her. It's...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

“Five Things I Wish I’d Known About Alcohol”: I’m at Aleteia

with five things: The first time I got drunk, I was embarrassing. I was 17...