.praddenkeefe has written about all kinds of disreputable figures. He spoke with MrJDWalsh about his new book 'Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks' and the 'inescapable cruelty' of his work
Photo: Caroline Tompkins/The New York Times On a recent evening, journalist Patrick Radden Keefe was in his home office in Westchester County, toying with a story idea that involved the Russian mafia. Before calling it a day, he printed a trove of related documents and left them in a stack on his printer tray.
Keefe insists that his predisposition toward “bad guys” is not a point of tension in his marriage, but his new book, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks , is proof of his nearly undivided focus on scoundrels.
“In his hands, an abyss becomes a mirror. You end up learning what is the vulnerability or the vanity of the culture that got taken in by this person or that allowed this criminal to triumph or prosper. That’s why I feel like his work, admittedly emerging during a time when there is a grifting-journalism economy, stands out as singular,” says Daniel Zalewski, Keefe’s longtime editor at The New Yorker.
While Rogues represents 15 years of magazine writing, it’s Keefe’s relatively recent work that launched him to a level of success few journalists ever reach. Say Nothing was a New York Times best-seller and optioned as a limited series on FX. In the spring of 2020, as the U.S. went into lockdown, Keefe released Wind of Change, an eight-episode podcast in which he investigated the mysterious origins of the Cold War–era anthem of the same name by glam-metal band the Scorpions.
Keefe grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the son of an urban planner and a professor of philosophy. After undergrad at Columbia, Keefe went to Cambridge and the London School of Economics. Even as he was collecting master’s degrees unrelated to journalism, Keefe always knew where he wanted to end up.
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