Patrick Radden Keefe on Crime Stories, No-Access Journalism, Getting Tenure at The New Yorker, and Turning 'Say Nothing' Into a Series

The Press Box

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Last week, Bryan went to the Santa Fe International Literary Festival and was able to speak with Patrick Radden Keefe. They discussed a few things about Patrick’s career, including: How Patrick discovered magazines in junior high school and what stood out about them (2:21) How he pitches a story to The New Yorker today (12:20) His attraction to crime stories (17:19) Whether there are too many crime stories in the era of Netflix (25:07) Write-arounds and no-access journalism (31:20) Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Patrick Radden Keefe Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.6	You may have heard me say that I spent the weekend at the Santa Fe International Literary
1:05.7	Festival, which is thrown by my wonderful friends of nearly 20 years, Claire Hurtel, and Mark
1:12.0	Brian. I like to think of myself as a hardened Claire Hurtel and Mark Bryant.
1:13.0	I like to think of myself as a hardened journalist or at least I play one on this podcast.
1:18.7	But there is something truly wonderful about sitting at the festival listening to novelists like
1:24.0	Desmond Ward and Tommy Orange and Anthony Doar or journalists like David Gran and
1:31.1	Hampton sides. There's a lot of talk about craft and writing and telling stories, but at a simple level, I was reminded that books remain the coolest thing in the world and it's fun to be around
1:44.7	several hundred people that think the same thing. I was able to pull aside one
1:49.0	writer for a press box interview he is Patrick Radin-KeeKeefe of the New Yorker.
1:55.0	Patrick got his first assignment from that magazine in 2005.
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