Beating the bottle books
The Independent in the UK has a feature on ‘hic lit’ - or how I beat the booze memoirs.
Authors and alcoholism have a long history – think Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Bukowski – but the days when writers’ pens dripped with neat alcohol are long gone. Publishers see “hic lit” as the natural successor to the “real lives” columns that dominate women’s magazines. Ms Russell added: “It’s voyeurism. People buy the books for the same reason that they buy Bizarre magazine to see the unsavoury pictures.”
Popularity: 16% [?]