Like a Dog

de Zak Sally, John Porcellino

In the afterword, Sally notes that he had always assumed all his favorite artists had never dealt with moments "of paralytic, debilitating doubt and fear." Those insecurities and worries are deeply threaded throughout this book, which reads at times like a history of psychological warfare. Sally tends toward richly dark, semiautobiographical, and tightly etched tales of tension and self-recrimination. Creepy dreams and images of anatomical self-analysis are recurring themes, along with the general sense of transience that marked Sally's life while relentlessly touring with Low--Publisher's Weekly.