“I was really shocked when I went out to the Midwest and did readings out there last fall, and people really seemed to like it and were excited by it,” he says. He appreciates the reaction he’s been getting from audiences about the new material. However, he is currently reading selections at events around the country, as well as reading from Please Kill Me with co-author Gillian McCain. McNeil hasn’t quite finished it, so it won’t be available on bookshelves or tablets anytime soon. The new book is Live Through This, a memoir that chronicles his tragic relationship with his former love and its harrowing aftermath. And you write, so why don’t you sit down and write it.’ So I did, and that’s the new book.” “What my therapist said is, ‘Therapy is basically putting your life into some sort of narrative. In November 2011, McNeil went into a trauma program at the Sierra Tucson Treatment Center in Arizona, where his therapist gave him advice that he needed to hear. “For the last 10 years, I’ve been on pills,” he says. It spread to her leg, which had to be amputated. “But what I didn’t know was that she was still using heroin.”īlack tar heroin, to be exact, infected with a flesh-eating bacteria called necrotizing fasciitis. “About 12 years ago, I met a girl on a book tour and I fell madly in love with her, and we were gonna get married and all that stuff,” says McNeil, calling from his home in Schwenksville, Pa.
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