What role did the pharmaceutical industry play in creating and perpetuating the opioid

crisis?

Beth Nasey will join us to talk about her new book, Dope Sick.

How do you make the city of Lagos kind of live in a novel?

Lovia Garke will be here to talk about Chibundu Unozo's Welcome to Lagos.

Why did the Nation magazine apologize for a poem that ran in its pages?

Jennifer Schussler will be here to talk about the latest controversy in verse.

Alexander Altair will give us an update from the publishing world.

Plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is the Book Review Podcast for the New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Beth Nasey joins us now from Rowan Oak for Jr. Her latest book is called Dope Sick.

Dealers, Doctors, and the drug company that addicted America.

Beth, welcome back to the show.

It's great to be back.

Thank you.

So I think you were here for both Factory Man and for True Vine, your two previous books,

which makes you like a rare three time appearance here on the Book Review Podcast.

But trifecta.

Yes.

And three very significant, very heavily researched books in a short amount of time.

So let's start with how you got interested in the opioid crisis, which is the subject

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