please join me in welcoming claire dederer and erica barnett. >> hello! so excited to be here with you. i will jump in and say congratulations, the book is an impressive achievement that reads like a house on fire and i am a longtime fan of your work and sober person, so glad this book exists. i'm honored to be here as part of your launch. >> hello, everyone, josh from townhall, we are running into some tech issues, we will try to get the show back on track as soon as we can. are you still there? >> i just arrived. >> erica barnett? >> i think i am here. go ahead. >> all right. i am going to kick it over to erica barnett. >> it is such an honor you agreed to do this and you will be my interlocutor tonight. i'm a big fan of yours. this is a reading from my first book "quitter: a memoir of drinking, relapse, and recovery". let me tell you what it is like to be sober, really sober for the first time in years. it feels like seeing color for the first time. feels like you've been looking at the world through someone else's glasses and suddenly you can make out

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