Patrick Radden Keefe

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All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

It's stuck in fact checking...

I cheered when I recognised @praddenkeefe.bsky.social in Industry’s S4 finale (finally, some sound journalism on the show!); it led me to his new book, which aptly shares the murky, false glitz of Industry’s universe. Say Nothing was unputdownable, am excited/impatient for London Falling’s release!

Very early days but another pod is in the works! With the same team. 🙏🙏

Me too! FWIW I'm coming to DC in Aug. And hopefully Baltimore for the paperback...

As a day 1, read-THEM-when-it-was-first-published-25-years- ago Jon Ronson fan, this is very cool. 🙏

Ice Skating on the lake in Central Park, New York City (the Dakota in the distance), Unidentified photographer, 1894

The Next Stop for a Sundance Director: Leading New York’s Film Forum

I so love reading this. Not only has @filmforumnyc.bsky.social just experienced its two best box office years ever, but a quarter of its members are under 35.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/a...

My pet goat.

Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026 From the daily newsletter: Maggie O’Farrell, Halldór Laxness, Colson Whitehead, and more writers to watch this year.

@newyorker.com reveals their most anticipated books of 2026, including LONDON FALLING by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social and COOL MACHINE by @colsonwhitehead.com via www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

Patrick Radden Keefe Hunts for Ugly Truths In his sixth work of nonfiction, ‘London Falling,’ the bestselling author explores the blurry lines between good and evil and fact and fiction

“I’ve always been interested in force of personality and personal charisma,” @praddenkeefe.bsky.social says to @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Read more about his upcoming book, LONDON FALLING: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I think they're gonna have to start bringing out new wacky colors every few months, because with our generic blue every flight takes on a switched-babies-at-the-hospital suspense

i prefer "cassandra of luggage monopolies"

Of course we should be concerned about artificial intelligence and climate apocalypse but I'm more worried about the rapidly approaching moment when every suitcase on the baggage carousel is identical because they're all made by AWAY.

Civilizations have collapsed over less.

RIP Robert Duvall, who gave us one of my favorite exchanges in all of cinema:

Jack Woltz: I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork!

Tom Hagen: I'm German-Irish.

Jack Woltz: Well, let me tell you something, my kraut-mick friend!

Every American needs to watch this:

Watch this, it's astonishing.

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

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Fuller list of US dates (including some not shown above), along with links for tickets, here:
www.patrickraddenkeefe.com/book-tour

US Book Tour dates for LONDON FALLING! If I'm in your area, please come, I'll be talking & signing and it would be great to say hi. These are ticketed events so best to line up seats in advance. Will also be coming to UK/Ireland/Australia/New Zealand/Canada in May + June. 🙏

The Undefined Gothic | Beatrice Radden Keefe At the turn of the twentieth century, a Gothic fever swept Europe as artists searched for meaning in a lost age.

“Seen as German by Germans and as French by the French, the Gothic was revered by those yearning for a lost age of faith and unity as well as by avant-gardes in search of the new.” —Beatrice Radden Keefe

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

It’s always funny when palantir employees discover that they work at palantir

This is how we’re going to defeat fascism. Mass nonviolent civil resistance works.

It is pleasing to think of Bovino picking just the right outfit (off-duty fash/golfcourse Gestapo) for the first visit to his retirement office in the Christmas Adventurers Clubhouse.

The 22 Most Anticipated Books of 2026 This year, we’ll be blessed with new novels by Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, Andrew Sean Greer, and so many more celebrated authors.

Thanks to Esquire for including LONDON FALLING by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social , VILLA COCO by Andrew Sean Greer, and COOL MACHINE by @colsonwhitehead.com as their most anticipated books of 2026: www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

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One thing that shows you how bad ICE’s tactics are — ACTUAL cops are among the most vocal and biting in criticizing them.