Patrick Radden Keefe
@praddenkeefe.bsky.social
New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
(I once wrote a piece about Carl Icahn and was amused to discover the metronomic consistency with which he deployed the clause "At the risk of being immodest..." )
January 6, 2026 at 2:28 AM
(I once wrote a piece about Carl Icahn and was amused to discover the metronomic consistency with which he deployed the clause "At the risk of being immodest..." )
That he repeats his own "what I don't know I can learn..." bit from earlier in the movie might SEEM like sloppy writing (or sloppy improv) but is in fact a horrifyingly realistic glimpse of the actual conversational tendencies of a certain kind of boorish dude.
January 6, 2026 at 2:25 AM
That he repeats his own "what I don't know I can learn..." bit from earlier in the movie might SEEM like sloppy writing (or sloppy improv) but is in fact a horrifyingly realistic glimpse of the actual conversational tendencies of a certain kind of boorish dude.
Quite the backstory on Navarro's Harvard Ph.D:
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Quite the backstory on Navarro's Harvard Ph.D:
Source: this wonderful remembrance of Bennet by Nick Paumgarten www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
John Bennet, Enemy of the “Blah Blah Blah”
“An editor is like a shrink,” was one of many Bennetisms. He was that, and a lot more.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Source: this wonderful remembrance of Bennet by Nick Paumgarten www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...