Here’s an essay from Intelligent Life magazine entitled ‘When Novelists Sober Up.‘  I think about the influence and appeal of drugs on artists all the time, as regular drug use seems a constant and easy ‘sleep button/off switch,’ a sort of key to a less mentally-marooned living, albeit one that could, obviously, be destructive and potentially fatal…  Reading Infinite Jest has me thinking about this more so than I normally would.   Anyway, interesting article.

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