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TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I m Terry Gross. The one entity that has received the most blame for the opioid epidemic is Purdue Pharma, the company that makes and sells OxyContin. It s now facing over 2,500 lawsuits. Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family that owns and runs it is the subject of the new book Empire Of Pain by my guest, Patrick Radden Keefe. The Sacklers have been a secretive family. They never put their name on the company, but many wings of museums, universities, medical institutions and other organizations were named after the Sacklers after the Sacklers contributed huge sums of money. This connected the Sackler name with great acts of philanthropy. Keefe has investigated those philanthropic donations and the motivations behind them. The Sackler name has been removed from some of those institutions after the name was sullied by the opioid epidemic.
Youngstown-born poet Ross Gay won the 2021 Jean Stein Book Award and its $75,000 cash prize.
Gay, who moved to the Philadelphia area at a young age, won the award for “Be Holding, A Poem,” which was published in 2020 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. It is described as a book-length poem and homage to basketball legend Julius Erving of the Philadelphia 76ers. It weaves in cultural and historical references, zooming in for a close look at Erving and back out to all of the forces that made the basketball legend possible.
Gay is a professor at Indiana University and returned to Youngstown two years ago as a guest of the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts.
In
My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents immigration to Canada of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother s lonely upbringing, his father s fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story full of many Hemons, of course his parents, sister, uncles, cousins and also of German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, singing Ukrainians, and a few befuddled Canadians.
My Parents is Hemon at his very best, grounded in stories lovingly polished by retelling, but making them exhilarating and fresh in writing, summoning unexpected laughs in the midst of the heartbreaking narratives.
College of Liberal Arts 14 Apr, 2021
Camille Dungy has added another honor to her long list of accomplishments.
The University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Colorado State University has had a poem published by
The New Yorker magazine.
Dungy, who read one of her poems at the Democratic National Convention last year and another published by the
New York Times Magazine in 2018, won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship two years ago. She says that as part of the fellowship, she committed to writing poetry every day, a practice that led to “Let Me,” the poem that appears in the April 12 issue of