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“The life of a successful coast-to-coast black drug dealer in Donald Trump’s America” — Matt Taibbi interviewed about THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING on On Contact

Sunday, November 21st, 2021

“Drug Dealing, the Media, and the Politics of Division” — Matt Taibbi interviewed about THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING on Letters and Politics

Thursday, September 16th, 2021

“An entertaining fictional pusher reveals sobering real-life truths” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING reviewed by Washington Independent Review of Books

Friday, September 3rd, 2021

“Huey is a fully realized character whose hopes, suspicions, wariness, and weariness are all recognizable. Especially since he’s dealing in a substance so benign that it’s rapidly being decriminalized even as he peddles it on the sly. It’s easy to root for him to outsmart the cops and outplay his competitors.”

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“[An] honest and humane approach to the nasty business of business under contemporary capitalism” — Matt Taibbi’s THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING reviewed by People’s World

Sunday, August 22nd, 2021

“A well-structured, co-written narrative of a dealer… which recounts how [he] both builds a thriving business but then also is forced out of that business at the moment of legalization, where, as is true with every other business, it is taken over by hedge funds. The book has a crime novel mystery element as the dealer realizes someone in his network is betraying him and he and we don’t discover until the end who it is.”

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“Weeded out of business by a cannabis coup” — Matt Taibbi’s THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING reviewed by Morning Star

Tuesday, August 17th, 2021

“A more honest and human-centred approach to the brutishness of business under contemporary capitalism can be found in journalist Matt Taibbi’s account of the code of ethics and practices of ‘Anonymous,’ an African-American marijuana dealer, in The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing.

This well-structured narrative of a dealer who calls himself Huey Carmichael after two black revolutionary icons — Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton and civil rights organiser Stokely Carmichael — recounts how he both builds a thriving business but is also then forced out of it at the moment of drugs legalisation.”

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“Lays bare the link between organised crime, the state and policing” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING featured in Morning Star

Thursday, July 29th, 2021

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“Secrets of Drug Dealing Unveiled” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Rising

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

“The Secrets and Rules Which Allowed [a] Drug Kingpin to Never Get Caught” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Going Underground

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021

“The Inner Workings of Modern Drug Dealing” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING author Matt Taibbi interviewed for Merry Jane

Friday, February 12th, 2021

The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing by Matt Taibbi and Anonymous is a collaboration between one of the world’s best-known journalists and an unnamed former law-breaker to create a novel ‘inspired by truth’ that exposes the inner workings of the 21st Century street drug trade in the U.S.”

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“An intimate and detailed account of the business of grey legal marijuana.” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Stoner

Friday, February 5th, 2021

“A welcome, lyrical defense of ‘coaxing a beautiful thing out of the ground and bringing it to your door.'” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING reviewed in the Bohemian

Thursday, February 4th, 2021

“…[and] a gonzo journalist’s account of life in these United States during the turbulent Trump years.”

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Matt Taibbi discusses THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING on the Joe Rogan Experience

Monday, September 21st, 2020

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