The Car-Crash Conspiracy High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.

Just finished reading @praddenkeefe.bsky.social’s WILD New Yorker article about a group of people in New Orleans who staged *dozens* of car-into-18-wheeler accidents for money. They were real collisions.

Gonna be thinking about this one for a while.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death The New Yorker staff writer, who has chronicled political violence under the Irish Republican Army and the opioid epidemic, traces how a teen came to impersonate an oligarch’s son.

For the @newyorker.com Radio Hour, I spoke with David Remnick about LONDON FALLING, and for this segment we included some audio from recorded conversations the Brettlers had with Akbar Shamji and the gangster known as "Indian Dave." www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

The Car-Crash Conspiracy High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.

For @praddenkeefe.bsky.social, one of the best writers on corruption, the current moment provides an extraordinary bounty. Here, he focuses on a glut of car accidents involving big rigs around New Orleans. Guest editor Kit Chellel's top pick: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

😂🙏 Will cook for you any time.

Gobsmacked. Thanks to the incredible team at @doubledaybooks.bsky.social, to booksellers (who are, no joke, keeping literacy alive) and to everyone who has read the book already or has it on reserve at the library or just thinks they might check it out eventually when they get around to it. 🙏🙏🙏

Yes for a sec there my life flashed before my eyes

I don't believe so, unfortunately.

What a fun night in San Francisco. My interlocutor Isaac Chotiner may have been going easy on me.

This is the craziest shit I have read in a loooooong time.

The Car-Crash Conspiracy High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.

Siren. New @praddenkeefe.bsky.social joint. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The hinge is well and truly off at this point

@praddenkeefe.bsky.social has done it again. My #15of2026 #londonfalling is another page-turner. If Say Nothing had me abandon a family ski adventure to spend 3 hours in the parking lot of Palisades unable to stop reading, this one is going the same way. Can’t wait for PRK’s talk at the Irish Center

For those not ancient enough to get the reference.

And if it seems like I'm entering my Joyce Carol Oates phase, with a new book out as well, I'd just ~very quietly~ point out that I haven't published a feature in @newyorker.com in 2+ years.

The Car-Crash Conspiracy High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.

In the New Yorker this week, a story I've been trying to get off the ground for 5 years... about a Hollywood stuntwoman-turned-personal-injury-lawyer, her ex-con fiancee, high-speed crashes with 18-wheelers, and economic desperation in 21st century America. It's set in New Orleans and it's a doozy.

In new book London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe tells his most intimate true story yet Investigation into the mysterious death of a British teenager examines both a troubling demise and the city’s criminal history

@praddenkeefe.bsky.social "that rarest of reporter birds, a deeply thorough investigative journalist who can actually write and tell a gripping human story. Anyone who starts London Falling will finish it quickly”
✍️ Ian Brown @theglobeandmail.com
Gift article www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/30a4f28...

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Say Nothing author @praddenkeefe.bsky.social talks to Keith Duggan in @irishtimes.com ‘The truth often makes people uncomfortable’ @picadorbooks.bsky.social

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

How the mysterious death of a teenager reveals London’s seedy underworld In London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe uncovers the life and lies of a 19-year-old who jumped from luxury Thameside flats — and proves he’s still the master of non-fiction

Wonderful review of LONDON FALLING by the great Craig Brown in the Sunday Times.

Truly, my most worthy contribution.

Honestly given a few drinks I would tattoo "yes to zhoug" on my forehead

A woman after my own heart.

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For today’s Winnipeg Free Press Books section, I reviewed #LondonFalling, the new one from @praddenkeefe.bsky.social.

I wrote 600 words but I really only needed five: He’s done it again, folks!

Patrick Radden Keefe Is Hollywood’s New Favorite Author The bestselling investigative reporter behind ‘Say Nothing’ and ‘Empire of Pain’ turns true crime into best-sellers that become prestige TV.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...

🧐 Two bits of news in this @thr.com piece by Julian Sancton.

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Hilariously, when I'm weighing in on murder / power / corruption / political violence / the opioid crisis / the hazards of late capitalism / etc. people are like "yeah, okay, i basically agree" but make one taco recommendation and it's "HERETIC! BURN HIM NOW!!"

Those of you who know my real priorities will understand how pleased I was to finally be asked to do a Grub Street Diet www.grubstreet.com/article/patr...