As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction - Hardcover

Peres, Dan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062693468 ISBN 13: 9780062693464

Publisher: Harper, 2020

Synopsis

In the vein of Mary Karr's Lit, Augusten Burroughs' Dry and Sarah Hepola's Blackout, As Needed for Pain is a raw and riveting--and often wryly funny--addiction memoir from one of New York media's most accomplished editors which explores his never-before-told story of opioid addiction and the drastic impact it had on his life and career.

Dan Peres wasn't born to be a media insider. As an awkward, magic-obsessed adolescent, nothing was further from his reality than the catwalks of Paris or the hallways of glossy magazine publishers. A gifted writer and shrewd cultural observer, Peres eventually took the leap--even when it meant he had to fake a sense of belonging in a new world of famed fashion designers, celebrities, and some of media's biggest names. But he had a secret: opiates.

Peres's career as an editor at W magazine and Details is well known, but little is known about his private life as a high-functioning drug addict. In As Needed for Pain, Peres lays bare for the first time the extent of his drug use--at one point a 60-pill-a-day habit.

By turns humorous and gripping, Peres's story is a cautionary coming-of-age tale filled with unforgettable characters and breathtaking brushes with disaster. But the heart of the book is his journey from outsider to insecure insider, what it took to get him there, and how he found his way back from a killing addiction.

As Needed for Pain offers a rare glimpse into New York media's past--a time when print magazines mattered--and a rarefied world of wealth, power, and influence. It is also a brilliant, shocking dissection of a life teetering on the edge of destruction, and what it took to pull back from the brink.

About this title

About the Author:

Dan Peres was Editor-in-Chief of Details for 15 years, starting in 2000, when the title relaunched under his leadership. During his tenure, the magazine won two ASME Awards for Design and earned several other nominations, including General Excellence. Mr. Peres has brought to the magazine such writers and columnists as Augusten Burroughs, Michael Chabon, Anderson Cooper, Matt McAllester, Simon Dumenco and Rick Moody, along with top-tier photographers including Mark Seliger, Norman Jean Roy, Michael Thompson and Steven Klein.

Before taking the editorship of Details, Mr. Peres spent nine years at W magazine, overseeing bureaus in Paris, London and Milan. While in college, he worked as a copy boy at the New York Times and, later, as a research assistant at Esquire. He is the author of Details Men's Style Manual: The Ultimate Guide for Making Your Clothes Work for You.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0062693468
• ISBN 13: 9780062693464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256