Todd Meyers

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In "Homesick," Nicholas Shapiro examines the US government's distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/MiN6Otd

Sharing the stories of those left behind In his new book, McGill professor Todd Meyers conveys the grief felt by those who have lost loved ones to opioid overdoses.

In his new book Gone Gone, McGill professor Todd Meyers goes beyond the headlines about the opioid crisis to movingly convey the grief of those who have lost loved ones to overdose deaths mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/sharing-the-...

YouTube video by Remarque NYU Todd Meyers on his book, Gone Gone

Watch @totomcgee.bsky.social speak on Gone Gone, in conversation with @meghanor.bsky.social at the Remarque Institute last month.
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Still coming down from my conversation about GONE GONE with Meghan O’Rourke at the NYU Remarque Institute this past Wednesday. @dukepress.bsky.social

Cover of Gone Gone by Todd Meyers. Cover has an image of a variety of fruits, flowers, and cigarettes. The title in written in a large font in all capital letters, sideways across the cover. The author's name is written to the right of the title, sideways in all capital letters.

The @nytimes.com says @totomcgee.bsky.social 's new book "Gone, Gone" is a stand-out among many books on the opioid crisis. Molly Young says it's "the first account I’ve found that must be respirated rather than read. Effortlessly intricate."
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If you had to read one book on global health... If there is 1 book that you would like all global health students to read, it would be.....? Here is an impressive list of over 450 books generated by this question on Twitter!

I've updated this list of great books on global health!

New authors include: @adamjkucharski.bsky.social @rutgerbregman.com @carolinelenette.bsky.social @totomcgee.bsky.social Thomas Homer-Dixon, Don McNeil, Raina MacIntyre, @murray-journo.bsky.social

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Incredible list. And thanks for including Gone Gone!

2 Books to Read Instead of Meditating A gentle and clever comic novel; a poetic and tender essay on addiction.

Big congrats to @totomcgee.bsky.social for this profile of his fantastic, important, and harrowing new book Gone Gone from @dukepress.bsky.social!

Covers of Bangkok after Dark, The Politics of Collecting, A Sense of Arrival, Unruly Comparison, Learning to Lead, Gone, Gone, Artery, and Emergent Genders, arranged in a 4x4 grid.

May brings author events with @burrata.bsky.social , @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social , @drbrowne.bsky.social , @alexispauline.bsky.social , @jennrnajera.bsky.social , @totomcgee.bsky.social , @azeiderman.bsky.social , & @michellehsho.bsky.social . Hope you can attend some of them! buff.ly/fNYWRXg

So happy you’ll be there!

Todd Meyers ( @totomcgee.bsky.social), Gone Gone - @dukepress.bsky.social, March 2025
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Thanks @stuartelden.bsky.social for the shout out!

So so so so excited about this book: www.dukeupress.edu/the-visual-a... @dukepress.bsky.social

Book launch prep for May 7th @healthsciences.mcgill.ca social studies of medicine! @dukepress.bsky.social

In the wild! (at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal) @dukepress.bsky.social

My review of Maggie Nelson’s wonderful new book, Pathemata Or the Story of My Mouth (Wave Books, 2025) in The Lancet: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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I wish I could report that there are plans for audiobooks, but nothing yet…

“Here is a new language for grief, for tragedy, for the things about which we should rightfully be outraged, but which have come to feel grimly routine. Gone Gone is a book that has stayed with me; a book that deserves to stay with us all.” - Sam Byers, author of Come Join Our Disease

So grateful @sambyers.bsky.social ! Your words of support continue to resonate:

Front and back covers of Gone Gone by Todd Meyers, out now from Duke University Press.

I had the great privilege of reading @totomcgee.bsky.social’s deeply moving, brilliantly inventive book in manuscript. Now it’s out in physical form from @dukepress.bsky.social. Very highly recommended.

Cover of Gone Gone by Todd Meyers. Cover has an image of a variety of fruits, flowers, and cigarettes. The title in written in a large font in all capital letters, sideways across the cover. The author's name is written to the right of the title, sideways in all capital letters.

A white man with glasses and short gray hair and a gray beard sits in front of a radiator. He is wearing a grey hoodie. There is a plant over his shoulder.

"Gone, Gone" by Todd Meyers @totomcgee.bsky.social uses a blend of prose, poetry, and ethnography to reckon with grief in the face of overdose death. Read a Q&A with him about the book: buff.ly/PKcAdIX

Cover of Gone Gone by Todd Meyers. Cover has an image of a variety of fruits, flowers, and cigarettes. The title in written in a large font in all capital letters, sideways across the cover. The author's name is written to the right of the title, sideways in all capital letters.

Among the great new books we have coming out this month is "Gone Gone" by Todd Meyers @totomcgee.bsky.social . #Anthropology #MedicalHumanities
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Covers of When Monsters Speak, The Personality of Power, Feminism and the Cinema of Experience, Terracene, Atmospheres of Violence, Slaves to Fashion, In the Land of the Unreal, The Aesthetics of Resistance Vol 3, Made in NuYoRico, and The Inner Life of Race, arranged in a 5x5 grid.

Authors holding in-person and virtual events in March include @lmgm.bsky.social , @totomcgee.bsky.social , @alexispauline.bsky.social , and @lorimarso.bsky.social . Hope you can make it to some!
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It arrived @totomcgee.bsky.social ! Super keen to read this and find inspiration for the writing ahead of me

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Cover of Gone Gone by Todd Meyers. Cover has an image of a variety of fruits, flowers, and cigarettes. The title in written in a large font in all capital letters, sideways across the cover. The author's name is written to the right of the title, sideways in all capital letters.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Gone Gone" by @totomcgee.bsky.social , which blends prose, poetry, and ethnography to reckon with grief in the face of overdose death and the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis.
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!!!!!!! Thank you EW!!!

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New episode out now!

Listen to @totomcgee.bsky.social discuss his latest book Gone Gone published by @dukepress.bsky.social

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Todd Meyers - The Death Studies Podcast What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Todd Meyers on grief, anthropology, entanglements, addiction, language, overdose death, opioid crisis, life’s incoherence and knowing your limits Who is...

New month, new episode!

We spoke with @totomcgee.bsky.social about his soon to be published book Gone Gone @dukepress.bsky.social on experiencing grief through losing a loved one to drugs and overdose deaths

Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

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