Folie a deux …

… A vintage study of drinking and writing by Jonathan Leaf | The New Criterion. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The subject of the journal and of Forseth’s research was one with special resonance to him: what is the connection between addiction and writing? A reformed drinker who spent much of his early adulthood under the influence, Forseth was well aware of the research showing that writers have among the highest alcoholism rates of any profession. Forseth made it his life’s work to determine why this was.