Keefe then relates an unsettling phone call that would seem to back his claim to vivid portraiture. “It takes a lot of creative reporting to produce a vivid portrait of someone without ever getting to speak to them,” he writes, “but these pieces are often more revealing than the scripted encounters you end up with when the politician or the CEO actually cooperates.” In the preface to Rogues, Patrick Radden Keefe’s collection of spellbinding New Yorker features, Keefe explains that he’s become a specialist in “the writearound” - articles whose subjects refuse to grant interviews.
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooksīy Patrick Radden Keefe.
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