{"id":156877,"date":"2022-01-26T15:48:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T20:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=156877"},"modified":"2022-01-31T13:24:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:24:40","slug":"redux-functionally-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/26\/redux-functionally-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Functionally Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dkY3AH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/619\/the-art-of-journalism-no-1-hunter-s-thompson?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=0515978454-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-0515978454-56131441&amp;mc_cid=0515978454&amp;mc_eid=befe0faba8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-156880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-1-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new essay published on\u00a0<em>The Paris Review Daily<\/em>, the Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=6fded3edd5&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D6fded3edd5%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643233144833000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2iz2CVS0H4uwf-nJwDnrJU\">explores<\/a>\u00a0how a lifetime of cluster headaches led him to seek relief in the hallucinogenic mushroom\u00a0<em>teonan\u00e1catl<\/em>. He learns an important lesson: always wait before redosing.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of experimentation, this week\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Redux<\/span>\u00a0riffs on writing under the influence. Read on for Hunter S. Thompson\u2019s hard-won advice about which drug a writer should avoid, in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=f02d82ba9e&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Df02d82ba9e%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643233144833000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1dySeWm2S-32LG-JfhoZZt\">Art of Journalism No. 1<\/a>; a hazy afternoon in J. M. Holmes\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=f94e271db8&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Df94e271db8%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643233144833000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3itvb7MP2hybd6qV2EcQsE\">What\u2019s Wrong with You? What\u2019s Wrong with Me?<\/a>\u201d; Anne Waldman\u00a0on the body as \u201cjust a bundle of drugs\u201d in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=e3cacfe73b&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3De3cacfe73b%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643233144833000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2bjTdLiHz7rKmoh9GkXEu8\">How to Write<\/a>\u201d; Allen Ginsberg\u2019s 1966\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=f539b43db0&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Df539b43db0%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643233144833000&amp;usg=AOvVaw27hJ6meSl-C8AEoUu6cfL4\">letter to the editor<\/a>, regarding his experiences with LSD and psilocybin; and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=d2cecdfad2&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Dd2cecdfad2%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643233144833000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3e-6gExpdOlQbRN2kcFNms\">portfolio<\/a>\u00a0of Nancy Friedemann\u2019s loopy text-based drawings, as well as a sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy these free interviews, stories,\u00a0poems, and portfolios, why not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=b90ad55a31&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Db90ad55a31%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643233144833000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0YhtnZ5RJyx1qU1eUG3Cct\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>? You\u2019ll\u00a0get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n<p><em>Interview<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=3493d29b16&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D3493d29b16%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643233144833000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3Z6mwt2xwxAjjxLmCVO0IR\">Hunter S. Thompson, The Art of Journalism No. 1<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 156 (Fall 2000)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">How do you write when you\u2019re under the influence?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">THOMPSON<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">My theory for years has been to write fast and get through it. I usually write five pages a night and leave them out for my assistant to type in the morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">\nINTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">This, after a night of drinking and so forth?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">\nTHOMPSON<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">Oh yes, always, yes. I\u2019ve found that there\u2019s only one thing that I can\u2019t work on and that\u2019s marijuana. Even acid I could work with. The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane. Either you function or you don\u2019t. Functionally insane? If you get paid for being crazy, if you can get paid for running amok and writing about it . . . I call that sane.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/557\/new-work-nancy-friedemann?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=0515978454-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-0515978454-56131441&amp;mc_cid=0515978454&amp;mc_eid=befe0faba8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-156881 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-1.png 640w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-1-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Fiction<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=211f5fcfe1&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D211f5fcfe1%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643233144834000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1rCeMw09VFpIfmq-5FEcFT\">What\u2019s Wrong with You? What\u2019s Wrong with Me?<\/a><br \/>\nBy J. M. Holmes<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 221 (Fall 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The room was streaked with haze like we dropped cream in a coffee, but Rolls never cracked windows. He smoked like a pro even still, burned blunts and let it box out the room. He had the leather furniture from his dad\u2019s old office and we sank into it. These days, he got lit every morning before work, after his bowl of Smacks. His latest was shooting an ad for the ambulance chaser Anthony Izzo. I was about to ask him if he still painted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/557\/new-work-nancy-friedemann?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=0515978454-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-0515978454-56131441&amp;mc_cid=0515978454&amp;mc_eid=befe0faba8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-156882 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-2.png 640w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-2-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Poetry<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=2835f6af68&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D2835f6af68%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643233144834000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Hx7FGS-iYYec3Eg_l0Orz\">How to Write<\/a><br \/>\nBy Anne Waldman<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 45 (Winter 1968)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A lot of drugs can change you if you want<br \/>\nbecause you too are made of what drugs are made of<\/p>\n<p>In fact you are just a bundle of drugs<br \/>\nwhen you come right down to it<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/557\/new-work-nancy-friedemann?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=0515978454-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-0515978454-56131441&amp;mc_cid=0515978454&amp;mc_eid=befe0faba8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-156883 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-3.png 640w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-3-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Nonfiction<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=06b9d44f7a&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D06b9d44f7a%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643233144834000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1JXrJQ8rreQynOv4H1eEwj\">Footnote to Allen Ginsberg Interview, Issue #37<\/a><br \/>\nBy Allen Ginsberg<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 38 (Summer 1966)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To readers of\u00a0<em>Paris Review<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Re LSD, Psylocibin [<em>sic<\/em>], etc., Paris Review #37 p. 46: \u201cSo I couldn\u2019t go any further. I may later on occasion, if I feel more reassurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Between occasion of interview with Thomas Clark June \u201965 and publication May \u201966 more reassurance came. I tried small doses of LSD twice in secluded tree and ocean cliff haven at Big Sur. No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake\u2019s illustration for a canal in grassy Eden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/557\/new-work-nancy-friedemann?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=0515978454-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-0515978454-56131441&amp;mc_cid=0515978454&amp;mc_eid=befe0faba8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-156884 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-4.png 640w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-4-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Art<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=bf12999966&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Dbf12999966%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643233144834000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3sj3Qmybt7DE47cFEN4cP7\">New Work<\/a><br \/>\nBy Nancy Friedemann<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 158 (Spring\u2013Summer 2001)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last year I had the chance to watch Colombian-born artist Nancy Friedemann work in her studio at the artists\u2019 colony Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York. Amidst a scattering of fat permanent markers\u2014the kind graffiti artists use on subway interiors\u2014various books lay sprawled on the floor, but otherwise the room was clean and spare: just eight four-by-six-foot panels of semitransparent vellum-like Mylar on the walls.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=94314548f2&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D94314548f2%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639588877828000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2YsEkEAWSr7nqaQsiGeGqq\">subscribe<\/a>! In addition to four print issues per year, you\u2019ll also receive complete digital access to our sixty-eight years\u2019 worth of archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we\u2019ve lowered the paywall on Hunter S. Thompson, J. M. 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