It’s the curse of the New Yorker, something about good intentions. To be clear, I subscribe to the New Yorker I have done for years.Īnd the arrival of each new issue is the beginning of a multi-part ritual: scan the table of contents, whisper “Oh, I’ll have to read that,” put the new issue on the coffee table, and, three to five days later, move it to the stack of older issues in the basket beside the couch, where it languishes forgotten, creating a stratified fossil portrait of the year’s progress.Īdmit it: you do very much the same. Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.Normally I would feel a bit awkward about making a confession like this, but I have a feeling I’m not alone: I don’t actually read the New Yorker magazine. Rogues is slated for publication on June 28, 2022. In the preface to Rogues, Keefe says the stories, all originally published in the New Yorker, “reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.”
His latest book, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, was published in April. Keefe’s 2019 book, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, was one of the most acclaimed nonfiction books of that year it was a Kirkus Prize finalist and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. “Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death penalty attorney who represents the ‘worst of the worst,’ among other bravura works of literary journalism,” Doubleday says.
The Penguin Random House imprint describes the book as “twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time.” Keefe announced on Twitter that Doubleday will publish his Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks next year. Author Patrick Radden Keefe will focus on “people behaving very badly” in his next book.
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