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The Least of Us

True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

The Least of Us deepens the story of our nation’s opioid epidemic to include the spread of mass supplies of synthetic drugs (fentanyl and meth).

Fentanyl is the deadliest drug ever on US streets. Quinones also broke the major story of Mexican traffickers’ method of making methamphetamine in catastrophic supplies now accompanied by waves of psychosis resembling schizophrenia, mental illness, homelessness and tent encampments across America.

The Least of Us also delves into the neuroscience of addiction, concluding we live in a soup of legal substances and services whose addictiveness is ever-refined by consumer-product corporations.

“In a time when drug traffickers act like corporations and corporations like traffickers,” Quinones writes, “our best defense, perhaps our only defense, lies in bolstering community.”

Thus, as he set out to do this book, Quinones sought small, unnoticed stories of Americans involved in community repair.

The story of a man who secretly kept a community center open for kids in a crumbling neighborhood that even the city thought it had closed. A woman retired from corporate America who opens a tattoo removal clinic where she removes the pimp’s brand from the inner thigh of a prostitute. A woman who adopts an infant and cares for the child’s bedridden mother rendered a vegetable by drug overdose – rooted in a casual promise she made years before.

“After years of interviews, research, and writing, finally, that’s what this national saga has left me with,” Sam writes. “That the lessons of neuroscience, the epidemic, and the pandemic are really the same: That we are strongest in community, as weak as our most vulnerable, and the least of us lie within us all.”

Nominated as a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award for Best Nonfiction book of 2021, The Least of Us is “a marvelous achievement,” writes David Varno.

"The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth" by Sam Quinones

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Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction, including New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic."

His new book is "The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth." Quinones hit the road to investigate these new threats, discovering how addiction is exacerbated by consumer-product corporations."

LISTEN 19:39 https://www.wamc.org/podcast/the-roundtable/2023-01-19/the-least-of-us-true-tales-of-america-and-hope-in-the-time-of-fentanyl-and-meth-by-sam-quinones

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TOP 22 TWO-FACE STORIES OF ALL TIME

8.) Batman 89 (2021-2022)

Billy Dee Williams’ Harvey finally gets his due with one of the most innovative, complex, and relevant takes on Two-Face ever written. Whole theses could be written on how this Harvey explores concepts like classism, racism, moral philosophy, and even quantum physics. A densely packed story with an ambitious split climax that can’t sufficiently be posted here.

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Out this week: Batman ’89: Echoes #1 (DC, $3.99): 

Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm and artist Joe Quinones present another tale set in that early Michael Keaton era of the Batman films, as Harvey Dent drives Batman out of Gotham and ordinary citizens take up his crusade against crime.

See what other comics and graphic novels will make their way into comic shops this week.

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Batman '89 #6 (2022)

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Do you ever want to be normal?

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Some of my favorite moments with Selina in Batman ‘89 - Art by (me) Joe Quinones, colors by Leonardo Ito

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DC Comics Preview: Batman '89: Echoes #2

Read a preview of Batman '89: Echoes #2 from DC Comics, written by Sam Hamm with art by Joe Quinones as the movie continuation, continues.

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Book Review: Batman 89’

A mini-series continuation of Burton's Batman universe is upon us, but how does it hold up three decades later?

In 1989, Tim Burton’s Batman changed the way some people felt about superhero films, and gave actor Michael Keaton one of his most iconic film roles. Needless to say, the films success brought about a sequel that was more in line with Burton’s sensibilities, but strained Warner Brothers’ thoughts on profitability with a story that was darker, and much less family-friendly. As the the film series…

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Couldn't pass up this awesome comic!!! 🖤����🐈‍⬛🐧☂️

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Preview: Batman '89 #6 (of 6)

Batman '89 #6 preview. It’s a battle between former friends for the heart of Gotham as Batman faces down Harvey Dent #comics #comicbooks #batman #batman89

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DC Comics Preview: Batman '89: Echoes #2

Read a preview of Batman '89: Echoes #2 from DC Comics, written by Sam Hamm with art by Joe Quinones as the movie continuation, continues.

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#Batman #DC Comics #joe quinones #Sam Hamm

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Batman '89: Echoes #2 (2024)

written by Sam Hamm art by joe Quinones & Leonardo Ito

#batman #bruce wayne #scarecrow #jonathan crane #DC #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

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Out this week: Batman ’89 Hardcover (DC, $29.99):

Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm returns to comics to work with Joe Quinones on the further stories of Batman, as he was played by Michael Keaton in 1989. This collects the six-issue miniseries with a new cover inspired by the film’s promotional poster.

See what other comics and graphic novels will arrive in stores this week.

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Batman ‘89 #2 (2021)

#DC comics #batman '89 #sam hamm #Joe Quinones #leonardo ito #clayton cowles #Alfred Pennyworth

[evilhorse]

My skin…burns. It festers. It reeks.

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Arkham Asylum is a place of healing on every world of the multiverse.

(Batman '89: Echoes #2, Sam Hamm and Joe Quinones)

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