First 100 registered attendees will receive a free copy of Beth Macy’s New York Times bestseller, "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America"(paperback, 2019) at the event. Event to include a pre-event reception and book signing. Named one of the “top five books of 2018” by Janet Maslin of the New York Times, Dopesick is the first book to fully chronicle the widespread impact of the opioid crisis over the course of 20 years, from the mining communities of Appalachia to cities, suburbs and rural communities throughout America. As a reporter for the Roanoke Times in the Appalachian region of western Virginia for a quarter century, Macy had a front row seat to the unfolding of one of the worst drug crises in U.S. history. Macy is the author of two previous bestsellers: Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local — and Helped Save an American Town (2014), currently in development for an HBO miniseries produced by Tom Hanks, and Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South (2016). This event marks the launch of “The Writers Institute in NYC,” an exciting new partnership between the SUNY Chancellor’s Office and the NYS Writers Institute to bring the Institute’s nationally-renowned conversation series to the heart of Midtown Manhattan. *YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT THROUGH www.nyswritersinstitute.org * If you have any questions please contact apoadhinterchapterliaison@gmail.com !!!