Ep. 164 Breaking a Story with Patrick Radden Keefe

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is staff writer at The New Yorker, and award winning author Patrick Radden Keefe. We talk about his newest book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, and the ways the opioid crisis was directly connected to their drug OxyContin. We also discuss Patrick’s thinking around breaking a story, writing after the success of his bestselling book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, and his foray into podcasting with his show Wind of Change.

The Stacks Book Club selection for May is Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. We will discuss the book with Jenny Lee on Wednesday May 26th.

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0:00.0	If you love the stacks, you're going to love Lit Society.
0:02.6	Lit Society is the weekly book podcast hosted by best friends,
0:05.8	Kari and Alexis.
0:07.2	Within each episode, they dive into a spoiler-filled discussion
0:10.7	of a different book.
0:11.8	Reading everything from fiction to nonfiction,
0:14.3	romance to mystery, they even give you dramatic readings
0:17.2	of their favorite passages, complete with sound effects.
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0:21.9	Lit Society is hilarious and feels like a night out
0:24.5	with your friends.
0:25.6	Isn't it time for you to take a break from your routine
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0:29.4	Subscribe to Lit Society, Books and Drama,
0:32.2	wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:34.7	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:42.9	Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books
0:45.0	and the people who read them.
0:46.2	I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today,
0:48.0	we are joined by Patrick Radden Keith.
0:50.6	Patrick is a staff writer at The New Yorker
0:52.6	and the author of 2019's award-winning and best-selling book,
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