A review of Rolling Stone Magazine’s piece on David Foster Wallace–polydrug addict
Rolling Stone, which is mostly a pseudo-liberal mouthpiece (spoken by a practically life-long libertarian with no affinity for either so-called liberals or conservatives or their political parties), occasionally has an article that makes a subscription worthwhile for the addiction-aware. Its recent expose of Senator John McCain's troubled past shed light on behavioral indications of alcoholism that couldn't be found elsewhere in concise format (even if we still can't be sure whether the behaviors are best explained by his own alcoholism or psychological, emotional and intellectual abandonment by his alcoholic father). Along similar lines, I'd read a number of obituaries on writer David Foster Wallace mentioning his struggle with depression, but never alluding to what turns out to have been long-standing ...
