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Meet Author Sam Quinones

Dr. Audrey Lavin Speaking of Books Author Series

2018-04-02 18:30:00 2018-04-02 20:00:00 America/New_York Meet Author Sam Quinones Award-winning journalist discusses his book, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. Followed by Q&A and book signing. Books available for purchase. Canton Palace Theatre -

Monday, April 02
6:30pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2018-04-02 18:30:00 2018-04-02 20:00:00 America/New_York Meet Author Sam Quinones Award-winning journalist discusses his book, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. Followed by Q&A and book signing. Books available for purchase. Canton Palace Theatre -

Award-winning journalist discusses his book, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. Followed by Q&A and book signing. Books available for purchase.

Presentation followed by Q&A session and book signing. Books available for purchase at the event.
If you need special accommodations for the event, please let us know at contactus@starklibrary.org.

Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of three acclaimed narrative nonfiction books. His most recent book addresses America’s opiate epidemic. He was selected as a 2008 recipient of the Maria Moors Cabot prize and is a 1998 recipient of an Alicia Patterson Fellowship.

Dreamland recounts twin stories of drug marketing in the 21st Century: A pharmaceutical corporation flogs its legal new opiate prescription painkiller as nonaddictive. Meanwhile, immigrants from a small town in Nayarit, Mexico devise a method for retailing black-tar heroin like pizza in the US, and take that system nationwide, riding a wave of addiction to prescription pills from coast to coast. The collision of those two forces has led to America's deadliest drug scourge in modern times. Dreamland was selected as one of the Best books of 2015 by Amazon.com, Slate.com, the Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, Seattle Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Entertainment Weekly, Audible, and in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Business by Nobel economics laureate, Prof. Angus Deaton, of Princeton University.

Quinones’ previous two highly acclaimed books grew from his 10 years living and working as a freelance writer in Mexico (1994–2004).

  • True Tales From Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx was released in 2001. It is a cult classic of a book from Mexico’s vital margins – stories of drag queens and Oaxacan Indian basketball players, popsicle makers and telenovela stars, migrants, farm workers, a narcosaint, a slain drug balladeer, a slum boss, and a doomed tough guy.
  • Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration came out in 2007. In it, Quinones narrates the saga of the Henry Ford of Velvet Painting, and of how an opera scene emerged in Tijuana, and how a Zacatecan taco empire formed in Chicago. He tells the tale of the Tomato King, of a high-school soccer season in Kansas, and of Mexican corruption in a small LA County town. Threading through the book are three tales of a modern Mexican Huck Finn. Quinones ends the collection in a chapter called "Leaving Mexico" with his harrowing tangle with the Narco-Mennonites of Chihuahua.


Presented By Herbert W. Hoover Foundation

With Support From Stark County Mental Health & Addiction Recovery

AGE GROUP: | Teens (6th - 12th Grade) | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Author Events |

TAGS: | Speaking of Books | Authors |

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