Patrick Radden Keefe on the Opioid Crisis, the Sacklers, and the Unsavory Game of Philanthropic Reputation Laundering lithub.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lithub.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Haruki Murakami, OxyContin and Other Letters to the Editor
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To the Editor: I really appreciated David Means’s review of Haruki Murakami’s new story collection, “First Person Singular” (April 25). Means is a good guide to discovering and appreciating Murakami’s oeuvre. And if you’ve never read any of it until now, this pithy collection is a good entry. But you either get Haruki Murakami or you don’t. And if you don’t like this one, you won’t like anything else he wrote either.
Murakami is that rare, once-in-a-generation writer who manages to either completely engross you in his world, at least in his abstract and arcane (but quite openly modern) musings on it, or to completely turn you off from turning even another page in any of his books. To me, “First Person Singular” was an opportunity to immerse myself yet again into his deftly woven magic.
Author of the article: Eric Volmers
Publishing date: Apr 23, 2021 • 5 hours ago • 6 minute read • Author Patrick Radden Keefe. Photo by Justyna Gudzowska. jpg
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Nearly 400 pages into the book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, author Patrick Radden Keefe tells the story of Nan Goldin.
The renowned photographer became hooked on prescription opioids. Her relationship with OxyContin began in 2014 when it was prescribed for tendonitis in her wrist. It didn’t take long before she became addicted.