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Reading: Mike Doughty

Mike Doughty first came to prominence as the leader of the band Soul Coughing. His candid memoir, The Book of Drugs—featuring cameos by Redman, Ani DiFranco, the late Jeff Buckley, and others—is "the story of his band’s rise and bitter collapse, the haunted and darkly comical life of addiction, and the perhaps even weirder world of recovery."

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