By Nin Garcia |Staff Writer| Author and CSUSB English Professor James Brown, is taking his battle against addiction to inspire and reach out to communities and families across America by using his book to captivate the lives of many. Following up from his previous book “The Los Angeles Diaries,” which has been used as a text book in several colleges including Harvard University, Brown released his second book, “This River.” In his book Brown provides an honest portrait of the struggles he has faced while breaking free from addiction. It describes his relationship with sobriety and how temptation is an issue, tells of agonizing relapses and traces his attempts to become a better … [Read more...] about Prof’s troubled past sheds light