Altered States by Dan Holloway
First of all, why are you here when you could be enjoying the wonderful Edinburgh eBook Festival ? Second, this has been a month dominated by a fever of around 40 degrees that has seen most of it spent in delirium (such as one day and night long episode when I was convinced that the Peak District had been made illegal and kept screaming out "but it won't go away"), followed by utter exhaustion. Which means my productive time has been somewhat curtailed, so forgive whatever rambling comes out. Nonetheless, this state of affairs has chimed in with a series of articles that has appeared recently in the Guardian triggered by the release of " The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink ", and also my recent reading, in preparation for hosting an event with the author at Waterstones (have they made their official minds up about the apostrophe yet?) Piccadilly, of Taipei by Tao Lin, one of today's most famously and unashamedly drug-fuelled writers. Not to mentio...