The 2025 Pascal Hall Authors Series welcomes its third author, Patrick Redden Keefe, August 6, 2025, at Pascal Hall, 86 Pascal Ave., Rockport, ME 04856. Cocktails will be served from 5-5:30 p.m., conversation from 5:30-6:30 p.m. A book signing, and reception will follow. 

Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the New York Times bestsellers Rogues, Empire of Pain and Say Nothing, as well as two earlier nonfiction books: The Snakehead and Chatter.

Keefe started contributing to The New Yorker in 2006. He received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014. Say Nothing received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, as well as the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and was selected by the New York Times as one of the “20 Best Books of the 21st Century.” Empire of Pain was awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the FT Business Book of the Year.

Keefe grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and went to college at Columbia. He received masters degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, and a law degree from Yale. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and fellowships from the New America Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in New York.

Keefe will be interviewed by Lynn Boulger, former executive director of the Authors Guild Foundation.

Barnswallow Books will have copies of his work for sale after the event.

All events in this series are free and open to the public but registration is required. Click here for tickets.