"I never wanted to write this book," he tells us at the outset, in a hangdog advisory that we shouldn't expect too much. It was also a book I never wanted to read, but here we are, Alec and I, making the best of a bad situation.-- Caitlin Flanagan on self-serving asshole/dad Alec Baldwin's book in an Atlantic Magazine article on I never wanted to link to and you don't want to read, but here we are.