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The Canton Palace Theatre
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About the Theatre
The Canton Palace
Theatre maintains the architectural integrity of its historic Theatre and
partners with others to present cultural\, entertainment\, and educational
experiences for the community.
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DESCRIPTION:Award-winning journalist discusses his book\, Dreamland: The T
rue Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. Followed by Q&A and book signing. B
ooks available for purchase..\nhttps://stark.libnet.info/event/337404
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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
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Sam Quinones is a journalist\, storyteller\, former LA
Times reporter\, and author of three acclaimed narrative nonfiction books.
His most recent book addresses America&rsquo\;s opiate epidemic. He was s
elected as a 2008 recipient of the Maria Moors Cabot prize and is a 1998 r
ecipient of an Alicia Patterson Fellowship.
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Dreamland \;recounts twin stories of drug marketing in the 21st Century: A pharmace
utical corporation flogs its legal new opiate prescription painkiller as n
onaddictive. 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 p
ills from coast to coast. The collision of those two forces has led to Ame
rica's deadliest drug scourge in modern times. \;Dreamland wa
s selected as one of the Best books of 2015 by Amazon.com\, Slate.com\, th
e Daily Beast\, Buzzfeed\, Seattle Times\, Boston Globe\, St. Louis Post-D
ispatch\, Entertainment Weekly\, Audible\, and in the Wall Street Journal
and Bloomberg Business by Nobel economics laureate\, Prof. Angus Deaton\,
of Princeton University.
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Quinones&rsquo\; previous two highly accl
aimed books grew from his 10 years living and working as a freelance write
r in Mexico (1994&ndash\;2004).
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\n- True Tales From Another
Mexico: The Lynch Mob\, the Popsicle Kings\, Chalino and the Bronx&n
bsp\;was released in 2001. It is a \;cult classic of a book from Mexic
o&rsquo\;s vital margins &ndash\; stories of drag queens and Oaxacan India
n basketball players\, popsicle makers and telenovela stars\, migrants\, f
arm workers\, a narcosaint\, a slain drug balladeer\, a slum boss\, and a
doomed tough guy.
\n- Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Ta
les of Mexican Migration came out in 2007. In it\, \;Quinones&nbs
p\;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 so
ccer season in Kansas\, and of Mexican corruption in a small LA County tow
n. \;Threading through the book are three tales of a modern Mexican Hu
ck Finn. Quinones ends the collection in a chapter called "Leaving Mexico"
with his harrowing tangle with the Narco-Mennonites of Chihuahua.
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