Author P.E. Moskowitz Discusses Breaking Awake
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About the Event
Author and journalist P.E. Moskowitz will discuss their new book Breaking Awake: A Reporter’s Search for a New Life, And a New World, Through Drugs. Stories Books & Cafe will be on hand with copies for purchase that can be signed by the author.
P.E. Moskowitz has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Guardian, and is the author of How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood, an exposé of the hidden power relationships in cities that ruin neighborhoods and the ways citizens can take them back.
Breaking Awake is a riveting journey from the author’s near-death experience and nervous breakdown through an intense process of self-rebuilding that included prescription and illicit drug use, which caused them to wonder: why are so many of us seeking out these types of interventions to deal with our daily reality? Moskowitz takes us on a kaleidoscopic voyage through our country’s collective mental health crisis and the drugs we use, from fentanyl to SSRIs, ketamine, LSD and beyond, to cope with the bleakness of our present moment.
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