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Raising Lazarus, Tuesday, November 14, 2023 6:00PM
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023 6:00PM
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Raising Lazarus
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Join the Community Foundation for a greater Richmond and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture for an evening program in conversation with journalist and bestselling author, Beth Macy.
Beth Macy is a 
Virginia-based journalist and the award-winning author of three New York Times bestselling books examining rural communities. Her first book, Factory Man, explored the aftermath of globalization and won a J. Anthony Lukas Prize. Dopesick, focused on the opioid crisis, was Macy’s second book, was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, won the L.A. Times Book Prize for Science and Technology, and was described as a “masterwork of narrative nonfiction” by The New York Times before being made into a Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning Hulu series, Macy’s third book and the subject of this program, Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis, was a follow-up to Dopesick and explores on-the-ground solutions to the nation’s drug epidemic.
A 2010 Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, Macy has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post.
The content and opinions expressed in presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
Program Notes:
- This lecture is in person only. Tickets are required.
- Attendees are invited to meet thespeaker immediately following the lecture.
- Signed copies of Raising Lazarus and Dopesick are available at ShopVirginiaHistory.org.
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