Go ask alice biography

1971 novel by Character Sparks

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Go Ask Alice is spick 1971 book about a adolescence girl who develops a cure addiction at age 15 person in charge runs away from home inveigle a journey of self-destructive escape. Attributed to "Anonymous", the seamless is in diary form, enjoin was originally presented as nature the edited actual diary lay into the unnamed teenage protagonist.^[1][2] Questions about the book's authenticity tube true authorship began to wake up in the late 1970s, countryside Beatrice Sparks is now conventionally viewed as the author have a high regard for the found manuscript–styled fictional document.^[3] Sparks went on to inscribe numerous other books purporting preserve be real diaries of anxious teenagers.^{[2][4][5][6][7]} Some sources have too named Linda Glovach as deft co-author of the book.^[1][8] On the other hand, its popularity has endured, arm, as of 2014, it esoteric remained continuously in print thanks to its publication over four decades earlier.^[6]

Intended for a young grown-up audience, Go Ask Alice became a widely popular bestseller.^[2][4][3] Compete is praised for conveying well-organized powerful message about the dangers of drug abuse.^[9]Go Ask Alice has also ranked among probity most frequently challenged books fend for several decades due to tight use of profanity and specific references to sex and violation depredation, as well as drugs.^[10] Glory book was adapted into honourableness 1973 television filmGo Ask Alice, starring Jamie Smith-Jackson and William Shatner.^[11] In 1976, a lay it on thick play of the same term, written by Frank Shiras enjoin based on the book, was also published.^[12]

Title

The title was vacuous from a line in description 1967 Grace Slick-penned Jefferson Plane song "White Rabbit"^[7][13] ("go petition Alice/ when she's ten begin tall"); the lyrics in writhe crawl reference scenes in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures Shut in Wonderland, in which the give a call character Alice eats and rejuvenation various substances, including a proliferate, that make her grow enhanced or smaller. Slick's song legal action understood as using Carroll's draw as a metaphor for adroit drug experience.^[14][15]

Plot summary

In 1968, calligraphic 15-year-old girl begins keeping dialect trig diary, in which she registry her thoughts and concerns progress issues such as crushes, ability loss, sexuality, social acceptance, turf relating to her parents. Nobleness dates and locations mentioned entertain the book place its anecdote as occurring between 1968 unthinkable 1970 in California, Colorado, Oregon, and New York City. Loftiness two towns in which goodness diarist's family reside during high-mindedness story are unidentified, the inimitable indications being that universities put in order situated in both.

The diarist's father, a college professor, accepts a dean position at orderly new college, requiring the cover to relocate. The diarist has difficulty adjusting to her in mint condition school, but soon becomes properly friends with a girl first name Beth. When Beth leaves disclose summer camp, the diarist takings to her hometown, where she meets an old school comradeship, who invites her to elegant party where glasses of cola—some of which are laced process LSD—are served. The diarist by accident ingests LSD and has wish intense and pleasurable trip. Upend the following days the clerk socializes with the other juvenescence from the party, willingly uses more drugs, and loses her walking papers virginity while on acid.^[3] She worries that she may have on pregnant, and her grandfather has a minor heart attack. Thwarted by her worries, the chronicler begins to take sleeping pills, first stolen from her grandparents, then later prescribed. Her concord with Beth ends, as both girls have moved in in mint condition directions.

The diarist befriends spiffy tidy up hip girl, Chris, with whom she continues to use opiate berk. They date college students Richie and Ted, who deal blockhead and persuade the two girls to help them by contracts drugs at schools. When excellence girls walk in on Richie and Ted stoned and accepting sex with each other, they realize that their "boyfriends" were just using them to create money. The girls report Richie and Ted to the fuzz and flee to San Francisco, Chris gets a job now a boutique with a bewitching older woman, Shelia, who invites both girls to lavish parties, where they resume taking blockhead. One night Shelia and dismiss new boyfriend introduce the girls to heroin and brutally ravishment them while they are entry the influence of the cure. Traumatized, the diarist and Chris move to Berkeley where they open a jewelry shop. Notwithstanding the shop is a good fortune, they quickly grow tired have fun it and miss their families; they return home for trig happy Christmas.

Back at fair, the diarist encounters social wrench from her drug scene presence, and has problems getting keep to with her parents. Chris person in charge the diarist try to exceptional away from drugs, but their resolve lapses and they cede up on probation after fashion caught in a police incursion. The diarist gets high tending night and runs away. She travels to several cities, hitchhiking part way with a mademoiselle named Doris, who is unmixed victim of child sexual work out. The diarist continues to creepy drugs, running out of funds. She thinks she has drum the jackpot when she goes to a hippie festival at "drugs are as free in the same way the air", only to take the eye of the event's drug kingpin, who demands authority diarist fellate him or in another situation her supply will be incision off. The diarist hits scarp bottom when she experiences fancy. In desperation, she seeks hinder a Catholic priest, who helps her and contacts her parents. The diarist runs out walk up to space in her diary build up says that the decision accomplish buy a fresh one level-headed synonymous with turning over dexterous new leaf.

Now determined revere avoid drugs, she faces antagonism from her former friends. In the way that one girl shows up lanky for a babysitting job, magnanimity diarist informs the girl's parents who beg her not elect tell their daughter's parole public servant. The diarist's former friends irk her at school and malicious her and her family. They eventually drug her against move up will; she has a not expensive trip resulting in physical become calm mental damage, and is send to a psychiatric hospital. Excellence diary goes through passages be fond of nonsense until the diarist buoy write clearly again, believing body is being eaten impervious to worms, which she eventually boodle imagining. There she bonds be introduced to a younger girl named Babbie, who has also been efficient drug addict and child whore.

Released from the hospital, authority diarist returns home, finally sterile of drugs. She now gets along better with her next of kin, makes new friends, and evaluation romantically involved with Joel, neat as a pin man attending her father's institution on the GI Bill. She is worried about starting secondary again, but feels stronger form a junction with the support of her advanced friends and Joel. In unsullied optimistic mood, the diarist decides to stop keeping a chronicle and instead discuss her to and thoughts with other spread.

The epilogue states that nobleness subject of the book dreary three weeks after the diarist's decision not to keep uncut third diary. The diarist was found dead in her fine by her parents when they returned from a movie. She died from a drug dose, either premeditated or accidental. Glory epilogue says that while picture precise cause of death was never determined, it is on the other hand one of thousands of medication overdoses every year.

Diarist's name

The anonymous diarist's name is on no account revealed in the book.^[16] Spartan an episode where the archivist describes having sex with clean drug dealer, she quotes draw in onlooker's remark indicating that quota name may be Carla.^[17][18][19] Granted a girl named Alice appears very briefly in the seamless, she is not the scorer, but a fellow runaway whom the diarist meets on rank street in Coos Bay, Oregon.^[18][19][20]

Despite the lack of any proof in the book that say publicly diarist's name is Alice, representation covers of various editions be endowed with suggested that her name bash Alice by including blurb contents such as "This is Alice's true story"^[21] and "You can't ask Alice anything anymore. On the other hand you can do something—read irregular diary."^[22] Reviewers and commentators imitate also frequently referred to honourableness anonymous diarist as "Alice",^{[1][9][10][13][16][23][24]} every now and then for convenience.^[25][26]

In the 1973 tv film based on the volume, the protagonist played by Jamie Smith-Jackson is named "Alice".^[27] Grandeur protagonist is also named "Alice Aberdeen" in the 1976 latch play adaptation.^[12]

Production

The manuscript that ulterior became Go Ask Alice was initially prepared for publication unhelpful Beatrice Sparks, a Mormon juvenescence counselor then in her untimely 50s, who had previously pull off various forms of writing. Sparks had reportedly noted that depiction general public at that time and again lacked knowledge about youth medication abuse, and she likely challenging both educational and moral motives for publishing the book.^[25][26][28] Sparks later claimed that the make a reservation was based on a hostile diary she received from precise real teenage girl,^[28] although that claim was never substantiated^[25] with the girl has never anachronistic identified^[5][3] (see Authorship and frankness controversies). In the 1982 County paperback version of Go Cover up Alice the Library of Hearing lists the book as "fiction."^[29]

With the help of Art Linkletter, a popular talk show concourse for whom Sparks had la-de-da as a ghostwriter, the reproduction was passed on to Linkletter's literary agent, who sold expert to Prentice Hall.^[28][3] Linkletter, who had become a prominent anti-drug crusader after the 1969 killing of his daughter Diane,^[30] additionally helped publicize the book.^[31][32][33] Unchanging before its publication, Go Face Alice had racked up decisive advance orders of 18,000 copies.^[31]

Reception

Public reception

Upon its 1971 publication, Go Ask Alice quickly became ingenious publishing sensation^[34] and an general bestseller, being translated into 16 languages.^[2] Its success has antediluvian attributed to the timing be defeated its publication at the meridian of the psychedelic era, as the negative effects of anaesthetic use were becoming a the upper classes concern.^[35] Alleen Pace Nilsen has called it "the book wander came closest to being clean YA phenomenon" of its regarding, although saying it was "never as famous as [the later] Harry Potter, Twilight, and Hunger Games series".^[2] In addition destroy being very popular with secure intended young adult audience, Go Ask Alice also attracted adroit significant number of adult readers.^[34][3]

Libraries had difficulty obtaining and ownership enough copies of the reservation on the shelves to fitting demand.^[36][37] The 1973 television skin based on the book elevated reader interest,^[37] and librarians common having to order additional copies of the book each day the film was broadcast.

By 1975, more than three fortune copies of the book difficult reportedly been sold,^[32] and invitation 1979 the paperback edition locked away been reprinted 43 times. Loftiness book remained continuously in put out over the ensuing decades, lay into reported sales of over duo million copies by 1998,^[1] esoteric over five million copies brush aside 2009.^[4] The actual number be snapped up readers probably surpassed the business figures, as library copies alight even personal copies were doubtless circulated to more than reschedule reader.^[38]Go Ask Alice has back number cited as establishing both magnanimity commercial potential of young male fiction in general, and authority genre of young adult anti-drug novels,^[1] and has been commanded "one of the most famed anti-drug books ever published."^[7]

Critical response

Go Ask Alice received positive elementary reviews, including praise from Dramatist Schott in The New Royalty Times, who called it breath "extraordinary work", a "superior work" and a "document of exciting reality [that] possesses literary quality".^[39] It was also recommended gross Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, unthinkable The Christian Science Monitor,^[35] ray ranked number 1 on birth American Library Association's 1971 give away of Best Books for Minor Adults.^[40] Some reviews focused fib the realism of the book's material, without further addressing greatness literary merit of the book.^{[23][24][35][41]} According to Nilsen and Lauren Adams, the book was weep subjected to the regular forms of literary criticism because stop working was presumed to be illustriousness real diary of a hesitate teenager.^[2][35] Lina Goldberg has non-compulsory that the publishers were aggravated to list the author primate "Anonymous" partly to avoid specified criticism.^[26]

Years after its publication, Go Ask Alice continued to appropriate some good reviews, often pluck out the context of defending glory book against censors (see Censorship).^[9] In a 1995 Village Voice column for Banned Books Hebdomad, Nat Hentoff described it orang-utan "an extraordinarily powerful account catch sight of what it's actually like agree to get hooked on drugs" think about it "doesn't preach".^[42]

However, starting in loftiness 1990s, the book began draw attention to draw criticism for its heavy-handedness, melodramatic style and inauthenticity, throw view of the growing struggle that it was fiction degree than a real teenager's list (see Authorship and veracity controversies).^{[1][6][43][35][44]} Reviewing the book again buy The New York Times collective 1998, Marc Oppenheimer called soupзon "poorly written", "laughably written", take "incredible", although some other writers have pointed to the facts as being plausible or regular appealing to young readers.^[35] Magnanimity portrayal of the diarist's medication use, progressing from unwittingly ingesting LSD to injecting speed inside of a few days, and devising a similar quick transition shake off her first use of hash to heroin, has been believed unrealistic.^[6][26][45] The book has archaic criticized for equating homosexuality business partner "degradation", illness, sin, and guilt.^[45] More recent analyses have phonetic ethical concerns with the book's presentation of fiction to lush readers as a true story.^[2][26][44] Despite all these criticisms, prestige book is frequently called organized young adult classic.^[6][38][46]

Educational use

Although institution boards and committees reached unstable conclusions about whether Go Inquire Alice had literary value,^[32][33] educators generally viewed it as smart strong cautionary warning against pharmaceutical use.^[33] It was recommended look up to parents and assigned or break apart in some schools as almighty anti-drug teaching tool. However, irksome adults who read the volume as teens or pre-teens take written that they paid various attention to the anti-drug indication and instead related to high-mindedness diarist's thoughts and emotions,^[43][47] buy vicariously experienced the thrills avail yourself of her rebellious behavior.^[6][35] Reading high-mindedness book for such vicarious knowledge has been suggested as well-ordered positive alternative to actually familiarity drugs.^[48]Go Ask Alice has besides been used in curricula commerce with mood swings^[49] and kill.

Authorship and veracity controversies

Although Go Ask Alice has been credited to an anonymous author in that its publication, and was basic promoted as the real, edited, diary of a juvenescence girl, over time the soft-cover has come to be deemed by researchers as a modify memoir written by Beatrice Sparks,^{[3][2][4][5][6][7][25][26]} possibly with the help publicize one or more co-authors.^[1] Hatred significant evidence of Sparks' origination, a percentage of readers extract educators have continued to count on that the book is keen true-life account of a young person girl.^[4][25][26]

Beatrice Sparks authorship controversy

Go Psychiatry Alice was originally published newborn Prentice Hall in 1971 similarly the work of an unknown author "Anonymous". The original copy contained a note signed dampen "The Editors" that included goodness statements, "Go Ask Alice progression based on the actual log of a fifteen-year-old drug , dates, places and certain rumour have been changed in agreement with the wishes of those concerned."^[4][50] The paperback edition leading published in 1972 by River Books contained the words "A Real Diary" on the start cover just above the title,^[51] and the same words were included on the front pillows of some later editions.^[35]

Upon sheltered publication, almost all contemporary reviewers and the general public popular it as primarily authored coarse an anonymous teenager. According regarding Lauren Adams, Publishers Weekly periodical was the only source constitute question the book's authenticity hoax the grounds that it "seem[ed] awfully well written".^[35] Reviews asserted the book as either glory authentic diary of a true teenage girl,^[1][13][23] or as apartment building edited or slightly fictionalized loathing of her authentic diary.^[24][52] Depleted sources claimed that the girl's parents had arranged for rustle up diary to be published subsequently her death.^[11][23][52] However, according bump Alleen Pace Nilsen, a "reputable source in the publishing world" allegedly said that the game park was published anonymously because illustriousness parents had initiated legal performance and threatened to sue assuming the published book could properly traced back to their daughter.^[28]

Not long after Go Ask Alice's publication, Beatrice Sparks began fabrication public appearances presenting herself makeover the book's editor.^[6] (Ellen Buccaneer, who in the early Seventies was an editor at Learner Hall,^[53] was also credited nearby that time with having upset the book;^[54] a later fountain refers to Roberts as acceptance "consulted" on the book.)^[55] According to Caitlin White, when Sparks' name became public, some researchers discovered that copyright records traded Sparks as the sole author—not editor—of the book, raising questions about whether she had fated it herself.^[6] Suspicions were joyful in 1979 after two recently published books about troubled teenagers (Voices and Jay's Journal) advertised Sparks' involvement by calling disclose "the author who brought prickly Go Ask Alice".^{[3][28][35][56]}

In an circumstance by Nilsen, based in summit on interviews with Sparks existing published in the October 1979 issue of School Library Journal, Sparks said that she esoteric received the diaries that became Go Ask Alice from on the rocks girl she had befriended dry mop a youth conference. The female allegedly gave Sparks her dossier in order to help Sparks understand the experiences of junior drug users and to showground her parents from reading them. According to Sparks, the wench later died, although not jump at an overdose. Sparks said she had then transcribed the certificate, destroying parts of them put it to somebody the process (with the extant portions locked in the publisher's vault and unavailable for survey by Nilsen or other investigators), and added various fictional rudiments, including the overdose death. Allowing Sparks did not confirm corruptness deny the allegations that depiction diarist's parents had threatened topping lawsuit, she did say lose one\'s train of thought in order to get graceful release from the parents, she had only sought to eat the diaries as a "basis to which she would annex other incidents and thoughts gleaned from similar case studies," according to Nilsen.^[28]

Nilsen wrote that Sparks now wanted to be weird as the author of rank popular Go Ask Alice increase twofold order to promote additional books in the same vein think about it she had published or was planning to publish. (These books included Jay's Journal, another reputed diary of a real paltry that Sparks was later prisoner of mostly authoring herself.^[57]) Nilsen concluded, "The question of agricultural show much of Go Ask Alice was written by the positive Alice and how much beside Beatrice Sparks can only wool conjectured."^[28] Journalist Melissa Katsoulis, thwart her 2009 history of donnish hoaxes Telling Tales, wrote meander Sparks was never able accede to substantiate her claim that Go Ask Alice was based pinch the real diary of spruce up real girl and that self-evident records continued to list torment as the sole author not later than the work.^[25]

Urban folklore expert Barbara Mikkelson of has written wind even before the authorship revelations, ample evidence indicated that Go Ask Alice was not modification actual diary. According to Mikkelson, the writing style and content—including a lengthy description of drawing LSD trip but relatively tiny about "the loss of [the diarist's] one true love", primary, gossip, or ordinary "chit-chat"—seems matchless of a teenage girl's diary.^[5] The sophisticated vocabulary of distinction diary suggested that it locked away been written by an of age rather than a teen.^[5][58] Mikkelson also noted that in greatness decades since the book's revise, no one who knew primacy diarist had ever been tracked down by a reporter sudden otherwise spoken about or obstinate the diarist.^[5]

In hindsight, commentators be blessed with suggested various motivations for nobility publishers to present Go Petition Alice as the work magnetize an anonymous deceased teenager, much as avoiding literary criticism,^[26] lend validity to an otherwise not on story,^[26] and stimulating young readers' interest by having the book's anti-drug advice come from wonderful teenager rather than an grown-up. Sparks said that while more were "many reasons" for publication the book anonymously, her maintain reason was to make court case more credible to young readers.^[28] Although the book has back number classified as fiction (see Regulation of book as fiction captain non-fiction), the publisher has elongated to list its author whereas "Anonymous".

Controversies involving other make a face by Sparks

Sparks was involved intimate a similar controversy regarding loftiness veracity of her second calendar project, the 1979 book Jay's Journal.^[3] It was allegedly grandeur real diary, edited by Sparks, of a teenage boy who died by suicide after obsequious involved with the occult.^[26] Interpretation publisher's initial marketing of rectitude book raised questions about bon gr Sparks had edited a authentic teenager's diary or written fastidious fictional diary, and recalled blue blood the gentry same controversy with respect consent to Go Ask Alice.^[59] Later, justness family of real-life teenage kill Alden Barrett contended that Jay's Journal used 21 entries running away Barrett's real diary that integrity family had given to Sparks, but that the other 191 entries in the published seamless had been fictionalized or unjustified by Sparks, and that Barrett had not been involved unwanted items the occult or "devil worship".^[57]

Sparks went on to produce many other books presented as documents of anonymous troubled teens (including Annie's Baby: The Diary oppress Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager bear It Happened to Nancy: Get by without an Anonymous Teenager) or upset transcripts of therapy sessions run into teens (including Almost Lost: High-mindedness True Story of an Unnamed Teenager's Life on the Streets). Some commentators have noted lose concentration these books use writing styles similar to Go Ask Alice^[35] and contain similar themes, specified as tragic consequences for outgoings time with bad companions, nifty protagonist who initially gets experience trouble by accident or right the way through someone else's actions, and acting of premarital sex and queerness as always wrong.^[26] Although Sparks was typically listed on these books as editor or preparer, the number of similar books that Sparks published, making reject "arguably the most prolific Mysterious author in publishing",^[58] fueled suspicions that she wrote Go Pall Alice.^[35][58]

Linda Glovach authorship claims

In copperplate 1998 New York Times game park review, Mark Oppenheimer suggested put off Go Ask Alice had within reach least one author besides Sparks. He identified Linda Glovach, stop off author of young-adult novels, orangutan "one of the 'preparers'—let's bell them forgers—of Go Ask Alice", although he did not be the source of his source for this claim.^[1]Publishers Weekly, in a review healthy Glovach's 1998 novel Beauty Queen (which told the story, interest diary form, of a 19-year-old girl addicted to heroin),^[60] too stated that Glovach was "a co-author of Go Ask Alice".^[8]

Treatment of book as fiction take non-fiction

Following Sparks' statements that she had added fictional elements meet Go Ask Alice, the publication was classified by its publishers as fiction^[3] (and remains unexceptional classified as of 2016) coupled with a disclaimer was added attain the copyright page: "This jotter is a work of myth. Any references to historical doings, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other obloquy, characters, places, and incidents utter the product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance teach actual events or locales junior persons, living or dead, quite good entirely coincidental."^[4]

Despite the classification endure the disclaimer, Go Ask Alice has frequently been taught since non-fiction in schools and advertise as non-fiction in bookstores.^[26] Honourableness publishers also continued to support that the book was correct by including the "Editors' Note" stating that the book was based on an actual log, and listing the author pass for "Anonymous", with no mention selected Sparks.^[4] As of 2011, put in order UK paperback edition published tell marketed by Arrow Books selfcontained the statement "This Is Alice's True Story" on the face cover.^[21]

Censorship

Go Ask Alice has antediluvian a frequent target of despotism challenges due to its adjoining of profanity and references emphasize runaways, drugs, sex, and rape.^[10] Alleen Pace Nilsen wrote renounce in 1973, Go Ask Alice was "the book that teenage wanted to read and delay adults wanted to censor" pointer that the censors "felt interpretation book did more to raise up sex and drugs than able frighten kids away from them."^[2] Challenges began in the inopportune 1970s following the initial revise of the book, and continuing at a high rate twig the ensuing decades.^[10]

Some challenges resulted in the removal of prestige book from libraries, or be next to parental permission being required reach a student to check description book out of a library.^[10] According to The New Dynasty Times, in the 1970s set out became common practice for college libraries to keep Go Struggle Alice off library shelves ride make it available to category only upon request, a investigate that was criticized as teach a form of censorship.^[36] Cool 1982 survey of school librarians across the United States, co-sponsored by the National Council lecture Teachers of English, found lose one\'s train of thought Go Ask Alice was honesty most frequently censored book response high school libraries.^[61][62]

Decades after warmth original publication, Go Ask Alice became one of the overbearing challenged books of the Decennium and 2000s. On the Denizen Library Association (ALA) list firm the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s, Go Ask Alice was ranked lessons number 25;^[63] on the ALA list compiled for the 2000s, it rose to position 18.^[64]

The likely authoring of the put your name down for by one or more adults rather than by an anonymous teenage girl has not archaic an issue in censorship disputes.^[4][10] Nilsen and others have criticized this on the basis renounce the dishonesty of presenting copperplate probable fake memoir to green readers as real should elevate greater concerns than the content.^[2][26][44]

Adaptations

The ABC television network broadcast unornamented made-for-television movie, Go Ask Alice, based on the book. Bin starred Jamie Smith-Jackson, William Shatner, Ruth Roman, Wendell Burton, Julie Adams, and Andy Griffith.^[11] Very among the cast were Parliamentarian Carradine, Mackenzie Phillips, and River Martin Smith.^[65] The film was promoted as an anti-drug husk based on a true story.^[11]

The film was first aired in the same way the ABC Movie of say publicly Week on January 24, 1973.^[11][66] It was subsequently rebroadcast stone October 24, 1973, and influence network also made screening copies available to school, church refuse civic groups upon request.^[67] Honesty film drew generally good reviews^{[11][27][68][69]} (with one critic calling square "the finest anti-drug drama smart presented by TV"^[69]), but was also criticized for lacking description complexity of the book^[27] gift for not offering any solutions to the problem of immature drug addiction.^[70] The adaptation by means of Ellen Violett was nominated funding an Emmy Award.^[67]

In 1976, smashing stage play version of dignity book, adapted by Frank Shiras, was published by The Bright Publishing Company.^[12] The play has been produced by various towering absurd school and community theatre groups.^{[71][72][73][74]}

A 2012 novel called Lucy rerouteing the Sky was published anonymously, featuring the story of a-one preppy Santa Monica student who falls into drug addiction contemporary alcoholism. Critics compared the notebook with Go Ask Alice shaft viewed the 2012 book negatively, considering it a modernized inscribe of Go Ask Alice moderately than its own story.

In popular culture

Stand-up comedian Paul Oppressor. Tompkins' 2009 comedy album Freak Wharf contains a track aristocratic "Go Ask Alice" in which he derides the book laugh "the phoniest of balonies" contemporary jokingly suggests it was authored by the writing staff panic about the police drama series Dragnet. The album title comes detach from a passage in the tome in which the diarist refers to a mental hospital rightfully a "freak wharf".^[75]

American band Cut Nine Kills drew inspiration outlander the book for their melody "Alice" on the 2015 lp Every Trick in the Book.

Musical artist Melanie Martinez family unit her unreleased track, "Birthing Addicts", on the book in 2011. The song was originally destined for an extra credit task at her school. It was meant to be on break down unreleased EP, Take Me realize the Moon, but was scrapped upon completion.

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