

Times Book Prize for Science and Technology, and was described as a “masterwork of narrative nonfiction” by The New York Times. Anthony Lukas Prize, and Dopesick was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, won the L.A. To receive an email reminder shortly in advance of the event, please be sure to register! If you encounter any issues, please join us on NYPL's YouTube channel.ĭon't have a New York Public Library card? Get one here!īeth Macy is a Virginia-based journalist with three decades of experience and an award-winning author of three New York Times bestselling books: Factory Man, Truevine, and Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America. To join the livestream | A livestream of this event will be available on this NYPL event page. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program. All registered seats are released shortly before start time, and seats may become available at that time. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, but registration does not guarantee admission. For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house.

Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. To join the event in-person | Please be sure to register for an In-Person Ticket. They speak with the Library’s Aidan Flax-Clark. Macy’s Raising Lazarus, the follow-up to her Hulu-adapted Dopesick, returns to the frontiers of the opioid epidemic and overdose crisis to witness the devastating personal costs that one-third of America’s families are forced to shoulder. In Invisible Child, Elliott follows eight years in the life of Dasani and her family, who navigate poverty, homelessness, drug use, racism, violence, and hunger in New York’s new gilded age. Their most recent books are intimate and personal pieces of reporting that enmeshed both writers in the lives of their subjects. Beth Macy was a finalist for the same award in 2019. Andrea Elliott won the 2022 New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.
