Patrick Radden Keefe is an skilled in long-form journalism, and his specific specialty is the so-called “write around,” through which a journalist constructs a profile of a person, even when that particular person can’t or doesn’t wish to be interviewed. In Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (15.5 hours), Keefe compiles 12 such essays, initially revealed in The New Yorker between 2007 and 2019, with updates appended. Among these are portraits of “Survivor” creator and producer Mark Burnett, meals author Anthony Bourdain and the drug lord Joaquin Guzmán Loera, higher often called El Chapo.
The writer reads his personal work with care and conviction, giving listeners sense of why he’s such an efficient interviewer and storyteller. Furthermore, every chapter is about an hour lengthy, which makes this audiobook a very sensible choice for followers of true crime podcasts.
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