Upcoming Events at Hotel Paradox, Autograph Collection
Wed Nov 16, 7:00 PM - Wed Nov 16, 9:00 PM
Hotel Paradox, Autograph Collection
611 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Community: Gilroy
Description
Bookshop welcomes Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author and staff writer at The New Yorker, for an evening celebrating his latest books
Event Details
“Patrick Radden Keefe is the Sherlock Holmes of long-form nonfiction, a relentless investigator who turns his reporting into irresistible storytelling.” —Tampa Bay Times
"I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it ... he's a national treasure." —Rachel Maddow
TICKETING INFORMATION:
Multiple ticket options to choose from! Select from entry-only (just $5!), or bundle entry with a copy of EMPIRE OF PAIN, ROGUES, or both
There will be a book signing following the event (masks required).
Books may be picked up at the venue on the day of the event, or at Bookshop Santa Cruz before the event (but please check specific date info on the ticketing page and confirmation email!). If you miss the event, we will hold your book(s) for two months following the event.
Event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time.
Read more on our website: https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/patrick-radden-keefe
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain, and Say Nothing, as well as two earlier nonfiction books, The Snakehead and Chatter. His most recent book is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks. Keefe’s work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He’s also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change, an 8-part podcast series, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and heavy metal music during the Cold War, and was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by The Guardian.
ABOUT EMPIRE OF PAIN:
A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose riches were built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.
The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.
Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability.
ABOUT ROGUES:
The appearance of his byline in The New Yorker is always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can see how Patrick Radden Keefe’s work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.
Rogues brings together a dozen of Keefe’s most celebrated articles from The New Yorker, brilliantly exploring 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.
These pieces have garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for Keefe’s meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. As Keefe says in his preface, “They 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.”
"Patrick Radden Keefe is a brilliant writer, and each of these pieces reminds you that this world and the people in it are more interesting, complicated and moving than you had allowed yourself to imagine. ROGUES is a marvel, showcasing the work of a reporter at the absolute top of his game."—Daniel Alarcón, author of The King is Always Above the People
MORE DETAILS:
COVID-19: When not eating/drinking, all attendees must wear a well-fitting protective mask
Event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time
All tickets are final sale and do not qualify for Bookshop Reader’s Club Credit
More details including parking info will be sent in confirmation email
Tags
"I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it ... he's a national treasure." —Rachel Maddow
TICKETING INFORMATION:
Multiple ticket options to choose from! Select from entry-only (just $5!), or bundle entry with a copy of EMPIRE OF PAIN, ROGUES, or both
There will be a book signing following the event (masks required).
Books may be picked up at the venue on the day of the event, or at Bookshop Santa Cruz before the event (but please check specific date info on the ticketing page and confirmation email!). If you miss the event, we will hold your book(s) for two months following the event.
Event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time.
Read more on our website: https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/patrick-radden-keefe
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain, and Say Nothing, as well as two earlier nonfiction books, The Snakehead and Chatter. His most recent book is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks. Keefe’s work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He’s also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change, an 8-part podcast series, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and heavy metal music during the Cold War, and was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by The Guardian.
ABOUT EMPIRE OF PAIN:
A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose riches were built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.
The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.
Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability.
ABOUT ROGUES:
The appearance of his byline in The New Yorker is always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can see how Patrick Radden Keefe’s work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.
Rogues brings together a dozen of Keefe’s most celebrated articles from The New Yorker, brilliantly exploring 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.
These pieces have garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for Keefe’s meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. As Keefe says in his preface, “They 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.”
"Patrick Radden Keefe is a brilliant writer, and each of these pieces reminds you that this world and the people in it are more interesting, complicated and moving than you had allowed yourself to imagine. ROGUES is a marvel, showcasing the work of a reporter at the absolute top of his game."—Daniel Alarcón, author of The King is Always Above the People
MORE DETAILS:
COVID-19: When not eating/drinking, all attendees must wear a well-fitting protective mask
Event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time
All tickets are final sale and do not qualify for Bookshop Reader’s Club Credit
More details including parking info will be sent in confirmation email
Tags
