Author's top five book list from @underthecover.books
Author and investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe stands in a bookstore and presents his curated list of five essential narrative non-fiction books. He sequentially introduces each book—'In Cold Blood,' 'People Who Eat Darkness,' 'News of a Kidnapping,' 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' and 'Random Family'—providing a brief summary of its story and explaining its significance, while the video intersperses his commentary with title cards and illustrative B-roll footage.
Creator: @underthecover.books on Instagram
Video format
Talking Head Edit
Video outline
- Establish Authority & Premise
- Present Item & Premise
- Provide Expert Justification
- Showcase Thematic Variety
Narrative framework
The Expert's Canon
Narrative framework logic
An established authority figure presents a curated list of exemplary items within their field of expertise, justifying each selection to provide a guided entry point for newcomers.
Topics: Reading Lifestyle, Journalism, True Crime
Concepts: Rapid Fire Listicle, Expert Rate/Rank, Buying List
Formats: Talking Head Edit
Elements: B-Roll Cutaway, Graphic Overlay, Archival Footage, Text Overlay
Account types: Brand, Personal Brand
Transcript excerpt
My name is Patrick Radden Keefe, and here's my list of five books to get you into narrative nonfiction. No the first would be In Cold Blood best Truman Capote. It's about a terrible series of murders in the High Plains of Kansas, and Capote goes and investigates and then writes about the killers. I think it's a really interesting meditation on evil. And it started in the New Yorker, which is where I write, and so I feel a particular connection to that book. People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry. Another book about a terrible crime. This one in Japan. It's got a kind of immersive, almost hallucinogenic quality at tier. All these kind of strange, subcultural highways and byways. The next book is one that was very influential on me called News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which is a nonfiction book about a series of kidnappings in Colombia. It's using all of the kind of tools of a novelist, but also his background as a reporter to tell a very vivid, gripping story. Killers of the Flower Moon, completely extraordinary about a series of murders in a Native American community. In its kind of deeper preoccupations about resource extraction and the way in which nativ
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