On this episode of Book It with CA, Carol Anne speaks with three authors who have pulled back the curtains on their own lives in deeply personal memoirs. Diane Cardwell, author of Rockaway, Susan Burton, author of Empty, and Carder Stout, author of Lost in Ghost Town, talk about their private struggles, relationships with family…
Continue ReadingAddiction trumps privilege in Carder Stout’s vivid memoir Lost in Ghost Town: A Memoir of Addiction, Redemption, and Hope in Unlikely Places (HCI). Written with excruciating truth and visceral fear, desperation and despair, Stout takes us into the incapacitating stranglehold of addiction and the battle to overcome it. Son of an heiress, he’d lived in…
Continue ReadingBefore he became a noted Hollywood psychologist, Carder Stout, PhD, lived a privileged life that gradually descended from elite Manhattan private schools into crack addiction and running drugs for an LA gang. Here, he tells Purist about the journey, and offers a peek at his searing memoir of addiction, redemption and hope in unlikely places….
Continue ReadingAddiction memoirs are a particular genre. They present unequal parts of noir autobiography, gothic fiction, sci-fi and dystopian horror, along with bits of black humor. They are books about recovery, which can only be written by those who have jumped off the train headed for oblivion. Their stories of survival plunge readers into realms of…
Continue ReadingA drug addiction memoir breaks stereotypes and proves that addiction can happen to anyone There is no easy way to write about drug addiction, just as there is no easy way to read about it. Lost in Ghost Town, author Carder Stout’s new memoir, somehow grabs the problem of addiction head-on while shattering common stereotypes…
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