Crash and Burn is a 2013 memoir by the American comedian Artie Lange, written with journalist Anthony Bozza. Published by Touchstone Books on October 29, 2013, the book is a follow-up to Lange's 2008 memoir Too Fat to Fish and focuses on the years surrounding his addiction, depression, suicide attempt, rehabilitation, and recovery. The book appeared on The New York Times Bestseller List. It was followed by Lange's third memoir, ' (2018).
In a September 2013 interview with The Tampa Tribune, Lange spoke about the book, saying: "The new book is the most honest thing I've ever done in my life. I just had to look at it again with my lawyer and I barely could get through it. It's about the last four years, when I was in mental institutions, rehabs, hurting myself, being in the hospital. It just starts to show how a successful guy and self-made man has everything go down the toilet because of a drug habit. It's the only thing standing between him being multi-multimillionaire. But I'm off the drugs now. Now it's just eating."
Publisher Simon & Schuster described the memoir as documenting Lange's "perilous descent into drug addiction, life-threatening depression, and ultimately, his recovery", and as a follow-up to his "hilariously raw debut", Too Fat to Fish. In October 2013, Rolling Stone published an exclusive excerpt and described the book as chronicling Lange's descent into depression and heroin addiction and his slow return from "rock bottom".
Crash and Burn was published in hardcover on October 29, 2013. The memoir entered The New York Times best-seller lists in November 2013, reaching number 8 on the combined print and e-book nonfiction list and number 12 on the hardcover nonfiction list.
A trade paperback edition was published on June 3, 2014. An unabridged audiobook, narrated by Sean Runnette, was also released.
Coverage of the book's release frequently emphasized its darker subject matter. The Philadelphia Inquirer described the memoir as Lange "get[ting] dark in his new tome" while focusing on his attempted comeback after his public collapse.
Kirkus Reviews gave the book a mixed-to-negative review, calling it "a tedious tale of substance abuse told by a self-admitted opiate-addicted, self-loathing slob". The review argued that Lange did not blame others for his addiction, but that the memoir's repeated accounts of blackouts, emergency-room visits, and abandoned treatment programs eventually became tiresome.
More broadly, press coverage around the memoir emphasized the combination of confessional detail and black comedy. Rolling Stone framed the book as a candid account of Lange's collapse and recovery, while The Philadelphia Inquirer presented it as a darker, more redemptive companion to the persona Lange had built in radio and stand-up.