Kaitlin J
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Lawrence Wright:
I was blown away at the caliber of your work in Going Clear. It was concise, fair, and incredibly well-researched. Would you be willing to do a similar investigation into the leaders of the Jehovah’s Witnesses?
Lawrence Wright
I have been asked this so many times! Yes, I'm interested, but I have written so much about religion that I'm afraid of repeating myself. But thank you, readers like you awaken my interest.
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Steve Capelli
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Lawrence Wright:
How can Egypt escape from continually falling into dictatorship?
Christian Hamaker
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Lawrence Wright:
You've won a Pulitzer Prize, but you've also lost after being nominated for a National Book Award for "Going Clear." How do you handle losing an award of that stature? Do you quietly seethe every time you see a reference to the book that won the award in that category instead of your book? (I do. You're too polite and diplomatic to say it, but your book was better.) Thanks for your outstanding work.
Jonathan
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Lawrence Wright:
Couldn't put it down! Rather than "just" a medical thriller, it's really a much richer portrayal of future threats – public health, kinetic war, cybersecurity, domestic social upheaval, etc. Hopefully the scenarios you portray in the book are far from our current reality, but does your experience researching and writing the novel lead you to worry about any similarly intertwined risks in our current moment?
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