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COVER STORY
Drugs
Kurt Andersen talks with playwright Eric Bogosian about
art conceived and created under the influence.
  Opium
Lit
A look at a time when drug addiction
was not so hidden- when British literature in particular portrayed opium
as exotic and romantic. Produced by Judith Kampfner.
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to Opium by Barbara Hodgson
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to an Oscar Wilde site
Go
to Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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to Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
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to Confession of an Opium eater by Thomas de Quincey
See
images of smoking opium
 William
Styron
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author reflects on his
complicated relationship with alcohol and its effect on his writing. Produced
by Trey Kay.
Go
to Styron on PBS's American Masters
Go
to a Styron bio
Go
to an excerpt from Unholy Ghost:Writers on Depression
Rave
Visit a psychedelic dance party where artists saturate
the environment with images and sounds created solely for people who are
high. Produced by Michael Jones.
Go
to Artist Alan Bell's website
Go
to Ultraworld Ravers
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to Kevin McCormick's LED art
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to Honey Gun Labs video design
 SPECIAL
GUEST
Eric Bogosian
is the author of the plays "Talk Radio"
and "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 last fall.
Bogosian's new play "Humpty Dumpty" had its world premiere at
the McCarter Theater in Princeton in spring 2002.
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to Eric Bogosian's website
See
Eric Bogosian
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Commentary
Kinkade Kitsch
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Design
For the Real World
A look at the delivery device for possibly the
most socially acceptable drug -- caffeine. MOMA Design curator Paola
Antonelli tells us why the disposal plastic coffee cup lid is here to
stay.
Ginger
Miles
Recently the Santa Fe Arts Institute gave residencies
to New York artists directly affected by the attacks on the World Trade
Center. An audio diary from the writer and producer Ginger Miles.
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to the Santa Fe Art Institute
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