5/29/2023 0 Comments Rogue patrick radden keefeRogues is a worthy addition to an already impressive canon. If the essays in Rogues have whetted your appetite for more Radden Keefe, I can recommend two of his previous books: Say Nothing, about the murder of Jean McConville in Northern Ireland, and Empire of Pain, about the Sackler family and how it became embroiled in America’s opioid epidemic. It is a deep, bittersweet, entertaining dive into the phenomenon that was (the past tense still hurts) Anthony Bourdain.īourdain comes across exactly the way you would want him to: curious, intelligent, generous, witty and kind with insecurity nipping at the edges of his halo. His final piece in Rogues is called Journeyman and is probably my favourite in the book. Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award. Like joining MI6 in the old days (before it started advertising in The Economist), becoming a staff writer for The New Yorker has always been an opaque, rather mysterious process, but I imagine Radden Keefe with his obvious investigative skills and a prose style that highlights economy and elegance was a shoo-in for the job. Description : From the prize-winning, New York Timesbestselling author of Say. Arrives by Wed, May 10 Buy Rogues : True Stories of Grifters, Killers.
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