Episode 334: Patrick Radden Keefe

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Radden Keefe is a New Yorker staff writer. His latest book is Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. “What was strange for me was that it was before I was born, almost a half-century ago. I went to Belfast and asked people about it and you could see the fear on people’s faces. So this notion that this event that’s older than I am still felt so radioactive in the present day was challenging from a reporting point of view, but it also, at every step along the way, made me feel as though it was good that I was doing this project. That this was not a kind of inert, stale history story I was telling. It was something that was vivid and palpable and menacing even now.” Thanks to MailChimp, Squarespace, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. The Mastermind (Evan Ratliff • Random House • 2019) @praddenkeefe Patrick Radden Keefe on Longform Longform Podcast #20: Patrick Radden Keefe [2:15] The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Anchor • 2010) [3:25] Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Doubleday • 2019) [23:05] "Where the Bodies Are Buried" (New Yorker • Mar 2015) [31:00] "The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives" (Robert A. Caro • New Yorker • Jan 2019) [42:10] "Picturing the Bishops" (New Yorker • Feb 2013) [43:25] "How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success" (New Yorker • Jan 2019) [44:25] "The Family That Built an Empire of Pain" (New Yorker • Oct 2017) [50:35] "Anthony Bourdain's Moveable Feast" (New Yorker • Feb 2017) [52:00] "The Worst of the Worst" (New Yorker • Sep 2015) [54:10] "The Avenger" (New Yorker • Sep 2015) [55:40] "The Hunt for El Chapo" (New Yorker • May 2014) [58:15] Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic 2nd Edition (Barry Meier • Random House • 2018) [58:20] Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Sam Quinones • Bloomsbury Press • 2016) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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