Episode 334: Patrick Radden Keefe

Published: March 13, 2019, 3:45 p.m.

b'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.\\n\\n\\u201cWhat 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\\u2019s faces. So this notion that this event that\\u2019s 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.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Squarespace, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe Mastermind (Evan Ratliff \\u2022 Random House \\u2022 2019)\\n\\n\\n@praddenkeefe\\n\\n\\nPatrick Radden Keefe on Longform\\n\\n\\nLongform Podcast #20: Patrick Radden Keefe\\n\\n\\n[2:15] The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Anchor \\u2022 2010)\\n\\n\\n[3:25] Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Doubleday \\u2022 2019)\\n\\n\\n[23:05] "Where the Bodies Are Buried" (New Yorker \\u2022 Mar 2015)\\n\\n\\n[31:00] "The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson\\u2019s Archives" (Robert A. Caro \\u2022 New Yorker \\u2022 Jan 2019)\\n\\n\\n[42:10] "Picturing the Bishops" (New Yorker \\u2022 Feb 2013)\\n\\n\\n[43:25] "How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success" (New Yorker \\u2022 Jan 2019)\\n\\n\\n[44:25] "The Family That Built an Empire of Pain" (New Yorker \\u2022 Oct 2017)\\n\\n\\n[50:35] "Anthony Bourdain\'s Moveable Feast" (New Yorker \\u2022 Feb 2017)\\n\\n\\n[52:00] "The Worst of the Worst" (New Yorker \\u2022 Sep 2015)\\n\\n\\n[54:10] "The Avenger" (New Yorker \\u2022 Sep 2015)\\n\\n\\n[55:40] "The Hunt for El Chapo" (New Yorker \\u2022 May 2014)\\n\\n\\n[58:15] Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America\'s Opioid Epidemic 2nd Edition (Barry Meier \\u2022 Random House \\u2022 2018)\\n\\n\\n[58:20] Dreamland: The True Tale of America\'s Opiate Epidemic (Sam Quinones \\u2022 Bloomsbury Press \\u2022 2016)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'