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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:7.5pt'>FRANCIS CONVERSATION SERIES / BRANFORD MASTER'S DESSERT
/ WITH SUPPORT FROM THE POYNTER FELLOWSHIP<br>
<br>
<b>Thursday, October 7, 8:00 p.m.<br>
Branford Master's Residence, 80 High St.<br>
Introduced by Anne Fadiman, Francis Writer-in-Residence</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#993300'>Nick
Reding<br>
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Author of <i>Methland</i></span><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#993300'>“A disturbing and fascinating journey.” <br>
–Francine Prose,<i> O Magazine</i> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The investigative reporter Nick Reding will read from and
discuss his book <i>Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town</i>
(<a href="http://www.methlandbook.com">www.methlandbook.com</a>).<strong> </strong>Nick
Reding spent four years investigating how Oelwein, Iowa (pop. 6,776) was ravaged
by crystal methamphetamine. He looked at the story from the perspectives of an
addict, a dealer, a prosecutor, a doctor, and several other central players.
The resulting book became a <em>New York Times </em>bestseller and won the 2010
Hillman Prize for Book Journalism.<br>
<br>
In a <em>New York Times Book Review</em> front-page review, Walter Kirn wrote:
“The book, wrought from old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting of a type that’s
disappearing faster than nonfranchised lunch counters on Main Street, isn’t
chiefly a tale of drugs and crime, of dysfunction and despair, but a
recession-era tragedy scaled for an `Our Town,’ Thornton Wilder stage and
seemingly based on a script by William S. Burroughs.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale
Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of
the announcement, including contact information, to <a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings"><span
style='color:blue'>nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to
the Yale-Readings list may not be posted. <br>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: <a
href="https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com"><span style='color:blue'>https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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