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'Dopesick' Writer Returns To Her 'Fractured' Hometown

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Journalist and Dopesick author Beth Macy returned to the Ohio factory town where she grew up to find jobs have left, families are struggling and old friends now embrace conspiracy theories. She spoke with Dave Davies about her new memoir, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America. 

Also, TV critic David Bianculli shares an appreciation of Twilight Zone writer/producer Rod Serling. 



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