Patrick Radden Keefe

I saw George Mitchell give a talk last night about the diplomatic effort to end the Troubles, culminating in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and he said something so sobering but obviously true: if social media had existed in the 90s the negotiators would never have been able to get an agreement.

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That's my plug for now. Much more next year. Can't wait for this one to be out in the world. Thank you. 🙏

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And here's the UK/Ireland/Australia/NZ cover, from @picadorbooks.bsky.social.

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But also in a broader sense about what it is about London today that would make a teenager aspire to be the son of a Russian oligarch.

It's about Zac Brettler, a London teenager who died in mysterious circumstances in 2019, and about his parents, who discovered after his death that he had been pretending to be the son of a Russian oligarch. It has turned out, in a weird way, to be a book about parenting, and about grief...

New book coming.

Mexico clown convention condemns fancy-dress drug cartel killing Latin American clowns gathered in Mexico City say killer dressed in wig and rubber nose had nothing to do with them

Found it! And my gloss was not far off.

"The people who do that, they're not clowns."

Reminiscent of one of my favorite articles from years ago: "Mexican Clown Convention Condemns Cartel Assassins Who Dress Like Clowns: 'These People, They're Not Real Clowns.'"

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

Audacy Shuts Down Podcast Studio Pineapple Street, Lays Off Staff; Division Had Produced Multiple Shows for HBO and Max Audacy is shuttering Pineapple Street Studios, which produced companion podcasts for TV shows like "Game of Thrones" and "The Last of Us."

This is very sad news. Pineapple Street was a real pioneer, a dominant force in what I guess in retrospect was the golden age of narrative podcasts. It was also, in my experience making Wind of Change, just a wonderful company full of decent, creatively brilliant people. variety.com/2025/digital...

Kind of sobering to realize we've crossed some invisible time threshold and now when you hear people generalize about "millennials" it's no longer old people complaining about young people but young people complaining about old people

Rod Nordland, 75, Dies; War Reporter Who Also Wrote of His Own Struggle

Growing up, a lot of the romance I associated with journalism was tied to war reporting, of the Vietnam era but also the Balkans - dashing, flawed, passionate characters like this.

“What was the point of being a journalist if you didn’t make hidden injustices visible?”

I will always think of heat like this as Do the Right Thing weather

In Nantucket for the Book Fest, hundreds of people out raising their voices in the rain and going hard with the signs.

This searchable map of No Kings marches to join on Saturday is impressively crowded:

www.nokings.org#map

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

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Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:

-Is not accused of committing any crime

-Is nonviolent

-Was in this country legally

-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to

-Has been locked up for six weeks

Book publicity conundrum: at what point does your memoir receive so much advance coverage that by the time it is actually available to read people feel like they've already read it.

Baltimore's fledgling answer to the decline of independent American journalism -- the online non-profit daily known as the Baltimore Banner -- has just been awarded its first Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the city's overdose crisis. Subscribe now. Great cities have great metro dailies.

The New Yorker Wins Three 2025 Pulitzer Prizes The awards honor Mosab Abu Toha’s commentary on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza; Moises Saman’s photographs of Syria after Assad, and the third season of the In the Dark podcast.

The New Yorker won three Pulitzer Prizes—the most ever awarded to a magazine in a single year—for its journalism on the effects of war throughout the Middle East.

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Say Nothing - The Peabody Awards This FX limited series, adapted from Patrick Radden Keefe’s nonfiction book, traces the unsolved murder of Jean McConville and the brutal complexities of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Through deep...

What a wonderful surprise: SAY NOTHING just received a Peabody Award. I'm so proud of this series. If you haven't watched yet, it's on Hulu in the US and Disney+ everywhere else, please check it out!

Early contender for a defining image of this era.