It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting … - Joshua Mohr

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Joshua Mohr

It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting the necessary supplies, then imbibing, then recovering, rinse and repeat. That's like eighteen hours of a day. And assuming you get out of that lifestyle before it macerates your heart, you have that Junkie Tunnel Vision, except now you get to use it for something positive: you know how to work tirelessly for one thing. Instead of using that tunnel vision to get high, I use it to make art.

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Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.

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No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

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I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you don't want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.

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Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

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My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

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