5/31/2023 0 Comments Dope sick author![]() ![]() ![]() She was a staff writer for the Roanoke Times for twenty-five years, reporting on social issues and marginalized communities that led to writing 2014’s Factory Man, on economic dislocations caused by globalization, and the New York Times bestseller Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, from 2018, on the opioid crisis. Macy has been working on deadline for over thirty years. Back at my studio, I messaged Macy on Facebook, and she immediately wrote back that she’d come to dinner tomorrow. She’s on a deadline.” An admirer of Macy’s investigative journalism on the opioid crisis, I was eager to meet her. Maybe she’d left early? A painter told me, “Oh, I don’t think she comes to dinner much. ![]() At least, her name was on the list of residents: I hadn’t seen any sign of her-not at dinner or lunch, or walking the grounds. Last summer Beth Macy and I overlapped by a few days at the artist residency the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. ![]()
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