What are some (narrative) books that focus on alcoholism? I've already read Under the Volcano which to me is the best, most insightful novel I've experienced on the topic, but I'm interested in others if /lit/ has any recommendations.

Anything by Bukowski, though I'd say alcoholism is less of a focus and more of the ambient all-surrounding fluid in which the narrative and all else in his works are thoroughly pickled. It's just a constant in Bukowski... but somehow, he makes it work. Probably because the stories aren't just about him sitting on his duff, but going out and doing things, enough things that it's always interesting.

>>24534929 (OP)
my diary desu

>>24534929 (OP)
Asylum by William Seabrook. It's his account of committing himself to a psychiatric hospital to treat his alcoholism.

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I think because he doesn't blame it. It's just something he'd rather be doing than being an adult.

Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien (1990)

Living muh disaffected alchie flaneur life is a meme. If you're smart you'll start to kick the drink of your own volition around your mid 30s when your health starts to flounder a bit. That's the first sign.

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I don't think you can throw him away that easy. He has a sobering critique of so-called adulthood, at least such as it was in his age, and what's changed since then? We're all still bourgeois, except we gussy it up with various repulsive prophylactics, none of which keep us safe from the STD of our own fundamental sacrifice. Not to say we should all become worthless drunks... but that was like, his dharma, man.

Anyway, would you rather be an adult, or a beloved poet and novelist? I don't like his poems, personally, but his novels stuck with me, and many, many others. Better that than banging your head against a wall for forty years...

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He's my favorite writer, actually. But I get your point. I meant more that he's the everyman and captures the underbelly of society with few words.

>>24534929 (OP)
brotherhood of the grape by john fante

>>24534929 (OP)
such an underrated banger

if you're into depressive hangover apocalypse, you might like fitzgerald's "the crack up." erofeev's "moscow to the end of the line" is a masterpiece of alcohol-induced mysticism. notable alcoholic geniuses include carver, simenon, and flann o'brien, all of whom smuggle lots of boozing into their books, though they're less single-minded, perhaps.

and rabelais of course - the patron saint of winos

>>24534929 (OP)
Infinite Jest has a lot about AA, for alcohol and drugs

P. sure there are several Kerouac books about this xP