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.”

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The Mastermind (Evan Ratliff • Random House • 2019)

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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)

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