Books by Caroline Knapp
“If you wanted to play the slightly arbitrary game of identifying the moment the addiction memoir came into being as a form, I think you could plausibly claim that it was with this book. Knapp’s book—as well as being very good—could benefit anyone attempting to make sense of their relationship with substances. And without being dogmatic, she’s not above dispensing hopeful little maxims.” Read more...
Matt Rowland Hill, Memoirist
Interviews where books by Caroline Knapp were recommended
The Best Addiction Memoirs, recommended by Matt Rowland Hill
The author and recovering addict Matt Rowland Hill dissects the ‘addiction memoir’—its literary potential, its formal conventions and its offer of hope and catharsis—as he recommends five books that exemplify the form, from Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater to Mary Karr’s bestselling Lit.
