Status Updates From Fourth Estate Notes to John.

“AA both isolated the alcoholic from everything that wasn’t AA and made the alcoholic see him or herself as perpetually sick, the ‘slip’ being guaranteed.”

Audiobook read by Julianne Moore 🫨

“I said that Quintana did not go to a college with a strong, or even any, core curriculum. She went for two years to Bennington, then transferred to Barnard, but by then a certain amount of damage had been done.

‘The most unstructured environment possible. She was the classic wrong candidate for Bennington or Sarah Lawrence, from everything I know about her.’”