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The Problem Drinker

by Kyle Kouri Publisher: CLASH BOOKS

An artist’s life across work, relationships, and drinking

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An artist’s life across work, relationships, and drinking

Kyle Kouri’s debut nonfiction collection brings together the pressures of a stalled writing and acting career, a relationship with a horror-famous partner, and his own drinking. Its subjects range from family and personal loss to writing rejection, literary events, and efforts to find work in the movie business. The book places creative ambition alongside the complications of sharing a life with another artist, drawing on both professional setbacks and personal highs and lows. The result is a memoir-shaped portrait of an artistic life in which career uncertainty, relationships, and drinking are closely intertwined.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in memoirs about creative careers and artistic ambition.
  • Readers looking for nonfiction that addresses drinking alongside relationships and family life.
  • Readers curious about literary events and the movie business from an artist’s perspective.

Themes

DrinkingCreative ambition and rejectionRelationships between artistsFamily and personal lossLiterary and film work

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Book overview

His girlfriend is horror famous, his own writing and acting is floundering, and he is drinking to make sense of it all.


Kyle Kouri's debut non-fiction collection is full of 'whiskey courage' staring at the abyss of family, writing rejection, relationships, and his own drinking. From hijinks at AWP to hustling in the movie business, Kouri bridges the gap in drama between indie and horror.


At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, The Problem Drinker is the story of an artist living with another artist, yearning to move the needle in his career, amidst a sea of personal tragedies and comedies. If F. Scott Fitzgerald had one foot in the 2020s horror scene, that's the spirit of Kouri's caustic and big-hearted, lush and refreshingly candid debut.


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