Title: Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk
Content:  Prior to writing Wasted, Judge had worked as a journalist and freelance writer in the Washington, D.C. area. Judge briefly taught at Georgetown University but left in the 1990s. Regarding the specific writing process and motivation for Wasted, the author denied it had anything to do with a desire to make excuses for his prior alcoholic lifestyle. Judge said, "I wanted the book to be very funny and to put the blame on myself." He explained the appeal of his book to those of his generation, as differentiated from other books in the same genre, "A lot of recovery books are very 'poor me.' GenXers are tired of hearing other Xers whine." Wasted was first published by Hazelden in hardcover format in 1997. An eBook was released by the same publisher in the same year. After the publication of Wasted, Judge went on to author a second book about his time at Georgetown Preparatory School. Judge published God and Man at Georgetown Prep in 2005. The memoir detailed how he published the school's underground newspaper which had information on wild parties.
Title: Wasted: A Childhood Stolen, An Innocence Betrayed, A Life Redeemed
Content:  Wasted: A Childhood Stolen, An Innocence Betrayed, A Life Redeemed is a 2008 memoir by British author Mark Johnson. As a child, he was severely mentally and physically abused by his father. When Mark escaped from where he lived, he turned to drugs and crime. His autobiography provides an account of his journey from self-destruction to self-fulfillment. Born in the West Midlands in 1970, Mark became a prolific offender and embraced a lifestyle of consuming drugs and alcohol. When he escaped from his chaotic lifestyle, he set up a tree surgery business, which employed several ex-offenders and recovering addicts. Mark earned The Prince's Trust Young Achiever of the Year Award.
Title: Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk
Content:  our Catholic school buddies." The Washington Times reviewed the book, and commented upon the author's state of mind, "All Mark Judge knew was how loneliness pounded inside his head like an unforgiving hammer." Judge's work was the subject of a book review in the academic journal, Psychiatric Services. Mother Jones commented upon the book, placing it within the genre of memoirs about alcoholism experienced during adolescence, "Like many works of the genre, it devotes a lot of ink to the kinds of debauchery that leads to Alcoholics Anonymous and recovery." Wasted received increased attention in 2018 during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination, in 
Title: Wasted: The Preppie Murder
Content:  The New York Times book reviewer Michale M. Thomas called it "an excellent, valuable book." The Los Angeles Times gave it a mixed review. Kirkus Reviews called it a "copiously researched summing up of a sad, sad story."
Title: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Content:  Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia is an autobiography written by Marya Hornbacher, detailing her fourteen-year battle with eating disorders. Published by HarperCollins in 1997, Wasted was a critical and commercial success. The author's young age (she wrote the book at the age of 21) surprised many readers, and the memoir was praised for its maturity and candor. Wasted has sold in the United States over a million copies and has been translated into fourteen languages.
Title: Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk
Content:  Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk is a 1997 memoir about alcoholism, binge drinking, and hookup culture at Georgetown Preparatory School, written by Mark Judge. Judge recounts his early formative experiences growing up in suburbs of Washington, D.C. under Catholic school education. The author describes his secondary education at Georgetown Preparatory School as filled with heavy drinking and experiences of teenage alcoholism. The book criticizes Alcoholics Anonymous for its lack of acknowledgement of physiological causes of alcoholism as a disease process. Prior to authoring Wasted, Judge was a journalist and freelance writer in Washington, D.C., briefly teaching at Georgetown University. He explained his writing process behind the work on Wasted, saying he wanted to create a frank and comedic book about alcoholism. He observed that authors of prior recovery coaching books took pity upon themselves, and he wanted to make a book devoid of complaining so as 
Title: Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk
Content:  appeal to Generation X. Wasted was reviewed by several publications, including The New York Times, Buffalo News, The Washington Times, and Psychiatric Services. The New York Times characterized Judge's book as a "naive and earnest" work about alcoholism. Buffalo News said the book had, "the drama of a made-for-television movie". The Washington Times commented that the author had been motivated by loneliness. Mother Jones placed Judge's work within the genre of books about teenage alcoholism. Wasted received increased attention in 2018 during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination, in the wake of statements by psychologist Christine Blasey Ford that implicated Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge in possible sexual assault. Demand for Judge's work significantly increased after reporting by The Washington Post on his books and the statements by Ford. Washington Monthly and Arkansas Times concluded that "Bart O'Kavanaugh" in Wasted was likely a reference to Brett Kavanaugh.
Title: How I Left The National Grid
Content:  of the novel and to often despair over whether the novel was worth anyone's time.' After publication it was noted that there were ‘echoes of Richey Edwards and Ian Curtis of Joy Division, in the books main character’. Richey Edwards was co-lyricist of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. Edwards suffered from depression, alcoholism, anorexia and self-harm and he disappeared on 1 February 1995. In a review of the book The Huffington Post recalled Edwards’ disappearance, adding ‘perhaps this is the figure that Guy Mankowski had in mind when he began to pen his latest novel’. In an interview between 
Title: So Disdained
Content:  Shute makes similar comments about rewriting So Disdained in his autobiography Slide Rule (page 78).
Title: Wasted (comics)
Content:  Wasted is a comic book series written and drawn by Gerry Alanguilan and published by Alamat Comics since July 1994 through July 1996. It was first released as an eight-issue photocopied comics and later collected into one volume by Alamat Comics in 1998, releasing a total of 500 copies. The entire story was serialized in several parts on the pages of PULP Magazine in the Philippines beginning in 2000, and eventually compiled the story once again as Wasted: The Final Edition in 2003, releasing 2000 copies. In 2013, a new edition of the story was published independently by Gerry Alanguilan himself. The entire series is currently available to read online for free. Comic book writer Warren Ellis considered Wasted "an early work by a potentially brilliant creator". Wasted tells the story of Eric, a musician who loses his dad and his girlfriend, and goes on a rampage in the city looking for twisted justice and ultimately, death. Wasted was Gerry Alanguilan's first self-written comic, and was originally intended for only Alanguilan's close friends to read, as he was embarrassed by the large amount of violence and profanity in the title.

Question: Who is the author of The Discarded?
Answer: Harlan Ellison.
Harlan Jay Ellison.