Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson (Picador, $14). The marvel of these stories, all about a drug-addicted loser named "F---head," is right there in the title: to be God's grandson, but also a bastard. Never has anyone written with more fevered precision about a walk through hell.
How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z by Ann Marlowe (Anchor, $17). With this memoir of her life as a Wall Street analyst and heroin addict, Marlowe helped me to understand that every drug addict is a control freak. Heroin gives Marlowe problems to focus on that are not as challenging as her real problems.
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