Patrick Radden Keefe Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Patrick Radden Keefe

This 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.

Patrick Radden Keefe

When 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).

Patrick Radden Keefe

It'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

Patrick Radden Keefe

Probably 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.

Patrick Radden Keefe

11 yr old: “Jonathan Crossroads Franzen, huh. That’s quite a name.”

Patrick Radden Keefe

I read Scott Turow’s “Presumed Innocent” as a first-year law student studying criminal law, and it remains my favorite legal thriller.

Patrick Radden Keefe

This 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

Patrick Radden Keefe

RT @PamelaPaulNYT: Here is The New York Times obituary: Eric Carle, author of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ dies at 91 https://t.co/IbtOSE…

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Happy 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/

Patrick 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.