Patrick Radden Keefe Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Patrick Radden Keefe is an author and journalist. Staff writer @NewYorker. Author of ROGUES / SAY NOTHING / EMPIRE OF PAIN / THE SNAKEHEAD. Podcast: WIND OF CHANGE.
Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
Claire KeeganPatrick Radden KeefeThis book is just over 100 pages but totally enveloping, I read it in one sitting on a plane. A spare, beautiful story about morality and kindness and cruelty, about when we elect to avert our eyes in the face of suffering & wrongdoing, or to intervene. Read it. It’s sublime.
Hardcover, 2021
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The Financier
Theodore DreiserPatrick Radden KeefeWhen I was working on my book about the Sackler family I read about a third of Dreiser’s “The Financier,” which was very helpful (but not so helpful that I finished).
Paperback, 2008
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin TarantinoPatrick Radden KeefeIt's so good that you just take it in stride when a longtime gaffer for Quentin Tarantino feels a jolt in his Tesla as he's driving to the set of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" and... https://t.co/a39QiLn9N9
Paperback, Mass Market, 2021
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Claire KeeganPatrick Radden KeefeProbably my favourite novel of the last several years, another Irish story, this one not about the Troubles but about the way silence and denial can suppress the truth and prolong injustice in a small community.
Hardcover, 2021
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Crossroads
Jonathan FranzenPatrick Radden Keefe11 yr old: “Jonathan Crossroads Franzen, huh. That’s quite a name.”
Paperback, 2022
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Presumed Innocent
Scott TurowPatrick Radden KeefeI read Scott Turow’s “Presumed Innocent” as a first-year law student studying criminal law, and it remains my favorite legal thriller.
Paperback, 2023
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John VaillantPatrick Radden KeefeThis is an amazing collection compiled by @GQMagazine and I'm delighted to find my own "Say Nothing" in the company of so many books I've read and loved and studied - but also that one of my own recommendations ("The Tiger" by @JohnVaillant) made the list https://www.gq.com/story/50-best-literary-journalism-books
Paperback, 2011
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric CarlePatrick Radden KeefeRT @PamelaPaulNYT: Here is The New York Times obituary: Eric Carle, author of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ dies at 91 https://t.co/IbtOSE…
Board Book, 1994
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Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids
Scott HershovitzPatrick Radden KeefeHappy pub day also to @shershovitz, whose wonderful NASTY, BRUTISH AND SHORT is a fresh and very funny approach to the big philosophical questions - from a child's POV. As the child of a philosophy professor myself, this one resonated with me. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/639701/nasty-brutish-and-short-by-scott-hershovitz/
Paperback, 2023
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The Shortest Day
Susan CooperPatrick Radden Keefe"The Shortest Day" by Susan Cooper Bunch of pagans that we were, this day was ritually observed in my childhood home, with candles and the reading of this poem. Happy Solstice everyone.
Hardcover, 2019
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