Almost all of my

Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy – cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority. Eric Fischl

Hideous psychic fallout they’d

Hideous psychic fallout they’d all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety – the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy – the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis … Read more

I was telling somebody

I was telling somebody about in grammar school we used to have the duck-and-cover drills where we’d have to go down to a fallout shelter in the basement. We’d sit on our butts on the ground next to the wall with a textbook over our heads and our knees sort of drawn up to our … Read more