Author Jeanne Darst Makes for a Great Interview

The photo adorning Echo Park author Jeanne Darst‘s AP interview immediately confirms that she’s not your run-of-the-mill literary Q&A type. There she stands, next to an open closet door, perched atop the various manuscript drafts for her critically acclaimed, alcohol-soaked memoir Fiction Ruined My Family.

At one point in the article, reporter John Rogers refers to a hilariously politically incorrect passage in the book about Darst’s drinking making her “so unpredictable, sloppy and sometimes violent that even men known to take sexual advantage of drunken women didn’t want to sleep with her.”

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