Why I Abridged a Self-Help Masterpiece

Is it Heresy to Create a Digest-Sized Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous? Not if it Saves Lives.

Mitch Horowitz
5 min readSep 15, 2017

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The following is my introduction to a new abridgment of the original 1939 edition of Alcoholics Anonymous, published by Gildan Audio.

You are about to encounter an abridgment of probably the greatest work of modern…

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China