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Imagine On Air presents Patrick Radden Keefe

In spring 2021, Wordfest’s Imagine On Air online series presented award-winning New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden Keefe and his highly-anticipated exposé of the Sackler family dynasty’s devastating connection to the opioid crisis: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. This is an hour-long conversation hosted by Shelley Youngblut, Worldfest’s CEO and Creative Ringleader.

See the Author in Calgary

Get tickets to see Patrick Radden Keefe’s Wordfest show on June 16, 2026! 

Non-fiction fans, this one’s for you. We’ve wanted to entice Patrick Radden Keefe (Say Nothing, Empire of Pain) to Calgary for years. And our time has come: The New Yorker‘s master of investigative narrative has added a Calgary stop on the world tour for his highly-anticipated new book, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth.

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