Dear Booklcub,
A delayed November meeting found us gathered mid-month to discuss Patrick Rodden Keefe's "Empire of Pain" at Yanni's. Missing Val and blessed with Ginger and beautiful weather, we sat outside around a large table and shared away.
Horrified by the continued actions and effects of the Sackler family's Purdue Pharma, medical marketing, legal evasion, dubious and deadly claims about opioids, our minds reeled anew with our discussion.
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| Patrick Radden Keefe |
https://lithub.com/how-arthur-sackler-got-america-hooked-on-opioids/
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| enlarged bits of William Powhida's The Sacklers (Family Tree) (2019) |
Intrigued by the philanthropy, I was fascinated by the activism against the Sacklers at universities and art institutions that had benefited from the giving. Nan Goldin's story and actions were of particular interest to me. Please read about her art, her story and the activism in the links below:
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| Nan Goldin |
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/goldin-nan/
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ttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/arts/design/nan-goldin-oxycontin-addiction-opioid.html
Be sure to play the video of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 'bottle throw' (this is a grainy screen shot taken from my viewing), which appears halfway through this article:
https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/sackler-family-art-museums
Wanda's suggestions for an upcoming read:
"The Mountains Sing" Nguyen Phan Que Mai *chosen
"The Lincoln Highway" Amor Towles
"The Fortune Men" Nadifa Mohamed
Up next:
Happy reading!
LK
