Patrick Radden Keefe in Conversation

‘Where to be saved you only must save face
And whatever you say, you say nothing.’

Seamus Heaney, ‘Whatever
You Say, Say Nothing’

Award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick
Radden Keefe’s book Say Nothing has
become a worldwide phenomenon. Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing
and Time Magazine’s Non-Fiction Book of 2019, Say Nothing is a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious
killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions

Patrick Radden Keefe’s mesmerizing book on the bitter
conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the case of Jean McConville
as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla
war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. His most recent
book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty ― another New
York Times bestseller ― is sweeping investigative chronicle of three
generations of the Sackler family, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose
reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. Empire of Pain won the Baillie Gifford
Prize and was Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year.

Patrick
Radden Keafe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The
Snakehead and Chatter. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine,
Slate, New York, and The New York Review of Books, among
others. Patrick was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in
2015 and 2016, and is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.