A Conversation with Lawrence Wright - a podcast by LBJ Foundation

A virus starts in Asia, quickly growing into a global pandemic that throws the U.S. and the world into a state of chaos. Sound familiar? It's actually the plot of "The End of October," the new novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and staff writer for The New Yorker, Lawrence Wright. We talk to Wright about the creative impetus for the novel, what he learned about pandemics in his meticulous research, and how it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic we currently face.

Wright is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," "God Save Texas," and "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief," for which he co-produced HBO's Emmy award-winning documentary adaptation.

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