" The Problem Drinker is brilliant, somehow both minimalist and gorgeously sweeping. Kyle Kouri is casually, effortlessly honest in a way that is so utterly propulsive, it makes the raw elegance of The Problem Drinker difficult to express without reading it for yourself. A potent, lyrical narrative." --Chuck Tingle, LOCUS Award-winning author of Bury Your Gays "Reading The Problem Drinker is like sitting in group therapy with all of your inner demons. At first, they just get fucking hammered and cry about all their own shit. Then, they fight about it. Then, they turn on you about it. And that's when you pour yourself another and hope to hell you make it out alive.

" --D.T. Robbins, author of Leasing and founder of Rejection Letters "Exquisitely raw, self-aware, and fresh out of fucks to give, The Problem Drinker threads the world's finest needle by giving voice to a dying art: late nights, stiff drinks, and the fickle agony of love and family. Kouri's voice lives somewhere between Hunter S. Thompson and David Sedaris. It's as messy as it is intellectual, with a wholly unique, heart-wrenching irreverence. From one so-called problem drinker to another, I am so glad this book exists." --Liz Kerin, author of Night's Edge "Kyle Kouri's The Problem Drinker is a mystical tour-de-force through the terror of personal and poetic histories.

Populated with stiff drinks, film, the art of writing, love, tragedy, fear, and glee, Kouri shares all in this book, letting us into the failures and celebrations of his existence in equal parts. Part memoir, part lyric essay, part epic poem, The Problem Drinker eviscerates through the nonsense of life and presents us with a pure and gleaming I, glinting in the sun of its own discovery." --Dorothea Lasky, author of Memory and Rome.