A Fan's Notes by Frederick ExleyRead about the other books on the list.
On the verge of a divorce, Exley surveyed the wreckage of his life in funny, coruscating, painfully lyrical sentences. He presented it all as a "fictional memoir" by a drunken, self-destructive, impotent failure — in his own eyes, anyway.
A Fan's Notes is one of Dan Barden's six top stories of addiction.
--Marshal Zeringue