This week The Pack is joined by is author Evan Hughes. (@evanhughes on TWITTER) We dig into Evans's latest creation, talk about some really evil people and some people who got screwed the least of which are the people who Insys Therapeutics killed. It's drugs, death, and strippers.
Evan has written for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, New York, The New Republic, Wired, the London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books. He has also been published in the New York Times Book Review, n+1, Slate, The Awl, and Salon, among other publications. He is the author of Literary Brooklyn, a work of literary biography and urban history..
He is the author of several books, one of his books, turned major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey, The Trials of White Boy Rick.
And his latest, soon to be released, The Hard Sell.
The Hard Sell. tells the inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers--until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. I’ve read it, Carl read it and you should read it.
Sit back have a drink and enjoy.
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