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SUMMARY:Patrick Radden Keefe: How to Tell a Story
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DESCRIPTION:The New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden Keefe on his approach 
	to reporting.\nWhat draws him to figures from the criminal underworld? How
	 do you write\njournalistic true-crime stories without slipping into sensa
	tionalism? And how\ndoes he recognize a great story in the first place?\n\
	nFew nonfiction writers have attained such stature that they appear as the
	mselves\nin the HBO series Industry and serve as the face of a fashion bra
	nd. Patrick\nRadden Keefe is one of them. Keefe previously wrote groundbre
	aking accounts of\nthe Sackler family\, whose pharmaceutical empire made t
	housands of Americans\naddicted to prescription painkillers\, as well as e
	xposés of the Mafia underworld\nin New York’s Chinatown. In his reporting 
	for The New Yorker\, Keefe has profiled\nfigures such as drug kingpin El C
	hapo and Dutch crime boss Willem Holleeder. His\nresearch is so meticulous
	 that he solved the murder of Jean McConville\, a woman\nwho was kidnapped
	 and killed during the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland.\n\nPatrick Radden Keefe weav
	es together deeply personal\, often true-crime stories\nwith broader socia
	l and political developments\, using them to offer a diagnose\nof our time
	s. A compelling example is his most recent book\, London Falling.\nFollowi
	ng the mysterious death of a British teenager\, it emerges that the boy\nh
	ad been leading a double life\, posing as the heir to a Russian oligarch. 
	Behind\nthis personal tragedy lies a larger story: how London welcomed Rus
	sian\nbillionaires with open arms\, fundamentally reshaping the city and t
	ransforming\nit into what became known as ‘Londongrad.’\n\nWe’ll talk with
	 Keefe about his approach to reporting. What draws him to figures\nfrom th
	e criminal underworld? How do you write journalistic true-crime stories\nw
	ithout slipping into sensationalism? And how does he recognize a great sto
	ry in\nthe first place?
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>The New Yorker journalist Patrick R
	adden Keefe on his approach to reporting. What draws him to figures from t
	he criminal underworld? How do you write journalistic true-crime stories w
	ithout slipping into sensationalism? And how does he recognize a great sto
	ry in the first place?</strong></p> <p>Few nonfiction writers have attaine
	d such stature that they appear as themselves in the HBO series <em>Indust
	ry</em> and serve as the face of a fashion brand. Patrick Radden Keefe is 
	one of them. Keefe previously wrote groundbreaking accounts of the Sackler
	 family, whose pharmaceutical empire made thousands of Americans addicted 
	to prescription painkillers, as well as exposés of the Mafia underworld in
	 New York’s Chinatown. In his reporting for <em>The New Yorker</em>, Keefe
	 has profiled figures such as drug kingpin El Chapo and Dutch crime boss W
	illem Holleeder. His research is so meticulous that he solved the murder o
	f Jean McConville, a woman who was kidnapped and killed during the ‘Troubl
	es’ in Ireland.</p> <p>Patrick Radden Keefe weaves together deeply persona
	l, often true-crime stories with broader social and political developments
	, using them to offer a diagnose of our times. A compelling example is his
	 most recent book, <em>London Falling</em>. Following the mysterious death
	 of a British teenager, it emerges that the boy had been leading a double 
	life, posing as the heir to a Russian oligarch. Behind this personal trage
	dy lies a larger story: how London welcomed Russian billionaires with open
	 arms, fundamentally reshaping the city and transforming it into what beca
	me known as ‘Londongrad.’</p> <p>We’ll talk with Keefe about his approach 
	to reporting. What draws him to figures from the criminal underworld? How 
	do you write journalistic true-crime stories without slipping into sensati
	onalism? And how does he recognize a great story in the first place?</p>
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