Lawrence Wright on his novel The End of October and Today's COVID Crisis

Lawrence Wright, author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, joins Karen J. Greenberg to discuss his prescient new novel The End of October and the parallels to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Together they discuss the vulnerabilities that have led to the current crisis.

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Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.

In December 1992, he joined the staff of The New Yorker, where he has published a number of prize-winning articles, including two National Magazine Awards. Wright is the co-writer (with director Ed Zwick and Menno Meyjes) of The Siege, starring Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, and Annette Bening, which appeared in November 1998. He also wrote the script of the Showtime movie, Noriega: God’s Favorite, directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Bob Hoskins, which aired in April 2000.

Wright is the author of two novels and eight nonfiction books, including The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf, 2006) which was published to immediate and widespread acclaim, spending eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and being translated into twenty-five languages.

For more on Lawrence Wright, visit his website.

Great conversation with Karen Greenberg. https://t.co/YAdIBJFtpk

— Lawrence Wright (@lawrence_wright) May 15, 2020