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Keefe and Max, two New Yorker staff writers, discuss Keefe's bestselling portrait of the Sackler dynasty, famous for their philanthropy and infamous for their part in making and marketing Oxycontin
Don't miss another of our top author conversations! Audience Q&A to follow. This program is sponsored by the Montclair Public Library Foundation, The Investors Foundation and watchung booksellers; to support Open Book / Open Mind and other library programs, click here to donate.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland," as well as two previous critically-acclaimed books, "The Snakehead, and Chatter." He is the writer and host of the eight-part podcast “Wind of Change,” on the origins of the Scorpions’ power ballad. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in New York City.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A New York Times bestseller. "An engrossing and deeply reported book about the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue Pharma. Their company created Oxycontin, the opioid introduced in the mid-90s that sent a wave of addiction and death across the country. Unlike previous books on the epidemic, Empire of Pain is focused on the wildly rich, ambitious and cutthroat family that built its empire first on medical advertising and later on painkillers. In his hands, their story becomes a great American morality tale about unvarnished greed dressed in ostentatious philanthropy." —The New York Times
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
D.T. Max is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of “The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery,” a cultural and scientific study of prion disease, as well as “Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace.” He lives in Montclair and is a member of the Open Book / Open Mind advisory board.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Open Book/Open Mind | Book Discussion | Author Talk |
