Kurt Andersen talks with playwright Eric Bogosian about art conceived and created under the influence of all kinds of substances.
Bogosian is the author of the plays Talk Radio,SubUrbia, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead, and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. His novel Mall was published by Simon & Schuster last fall. His new play Humpty Dumpty will have its world premiere at the McCarter Theater in Princeton this spring.
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