[Yale-readings] Thurs Oct 7, 8pm: Nick Reding, author of METHLAND

[Kuhl, Nancy]

FRANCIS CONVERSATION SERIES / BRANFORD MASTER'S DESSERT / WITH SUPPORT FROM THE POYNTER FELLOWSHIP

Thursday, October 7, 8:00 p.m.
Branford Master's Residence, 80 High St.
Introduced by Anne Fadiman, Francis Writer-in-Residence

Nick Reding

Author of Methland

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"A disturbing and fascinating journey."
                                                                          -Francine Prose, O Magazine
The investigative reporter Nick Reding will read from and discuss his book Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town (www.methlandbook.com<http://www.methlandbook.com>). 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 New York Times bestseller and won the 2010 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism.

In a New York Times Book Review 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."


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