The first, Winning, is about reality TV producer Mark Burnett and his role in helping Trump win the presidency (through the television show, The Apprentice). “None of us, not any one of us, wants to be defined by the worst day or the worst hour or the worst moment of our lives.” As well as being incredibly thought provoking, the story highlighted the emotional toll, intensity and vicarious trauma experienced by Clarke as part of her work. A Loaded Gun tells the story of a mass shooter’s tragic past, and The Worst Of The Worst profiles Judy Clarke, the defense attorney in the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombers. Crime Family, about how one of the Netherlands’ most notorious gangsters was betrayed by his own sister proves that truth is stranger than fiction. There were a number of essays that were of the traditional ‘true crime’ genre. As Koch told Keefe, he wants to collect rare wines and never drink them, because collecting is the point. It offers interesting insights into the single-mindedness of hard-core collectors and the importance (or not) of authenticity. Keefe tells the story focused around wealthy wine collector, Bill Koch, who purchased wine from the seller that was said to have belonged to Thomas Jefferson. The opening essay, The Jefferson Bottles, about a wine seller who had managed to ‘find’ and sell vast quantities of the world’s most rare and valuable wines sucked me in from the outset. Rogues is a collection of ‘true stories of grifters, killers, rebels and crooks’, all written as long-form investigative pieces for The New Yorker.Īs with any collection, some stories stand out.
After I finished Say Nothing, I was a devotee.
You can basically sign me up for anything that Patrick Radden Keefe writes.
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