Jolly Lad: A Menk Anthology John Doran

Music critic and mauvais vivant John Doran is turning his popular and long running ‘Menk’ column for ‘Vice’ into a book. ‘Jolly Lad’ concerns the author’s attempts to deal with his life as a recovering alcoholic, to calm his enthusiasm for narcotics, to take control of his wildly fluctuating mental health issues and to curb a tendency toward bleakness in order to become a better father to his young son and less of a ‘meff’.