Unraveling Darkness: How Kyle Kouri’s The Problem Drinker Reveals the Hidden Struggles Behind Addiction
“Oh I’m not worried about it. It’s your story to tell, Kyle. That’s the nature of writing nonfiction. I have my story, my perspective…. If I don’t like what you wrote, I’ll live with it, and we’ll talk about it. Of course… I haven’t read it yet, ha! But my feeling is, an artist’s job is to create, accept the consequences of their creation, and exist with a certain amount of melancholy.”
No reliance on Anne Lamott’s quip about people behaving better. Just the fact that each of us has our stories. Their publication does incur consequences, does invoke melancholy, but that’s what we sign up for when we write. And if nothing else rings true after reading The Problem Drinker, we must acknowledge melancholy’s power to inspire good writing.
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