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Dosed? (out Oct. 11, 2026) is a co-authored memoir that traces the psychedelic journeys of two married writers of a certain age—a Frenchman with a ravenous, lifelong appetite for kaleidoscopic experiences, and an American woman who largely eschewed drugs until, well, recently. Across a series of braided essays, they explore their separate paths through psychedelic experimentation—from the communes of 1970s France to contemporary cannabutter cuisine and later-in-life erotically charged LSD trips. Along the way, they reflect on love, loss, aging, consciousness, and what it means to live a psychedelic life over decades.
The book is a mix of storytelling and cultural commentary. Told in alternating voices, it offers a rare cross-cultural perspective on psychedelics, refracted through a marriage and two very different writing styles: one earthy and anarchic, the other analytic and lyrical. Think How to Change Your Mind meets Bluets, filtered through The Marriage Plot and several grams of psilocybin.
Sébastien Régnier and Barbara Browning live at the edge of The Great Vly in the Hudson Valley, where they make books, music, and other things. She's published three highly lauded novels (The Correspondence Artist, I’m Trying to Reach You and The Gift) and numerous works of nonfiction (most recently The Miniaturists). Sébastien Régnier is an award-winning screenwriter, singer/songwriter, and psychonaut (that last career was not what he got the awards for, but maybe he should have). Together, they previously published Who the Hell is Imre Lodbrog and The Terrarium.
Régnier and Browning perform music together as Imre Lodbrog et sa Petite Amie, and their recordings are available on all major streaming platforms, including an EP specially recorded to accompany this book, titled Funny Days.

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