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FREE LIBRARY of Philadelphia VIDEO – Author LAWRENCE WRIGHT, His New Book, THE PLAGUE YEAR : America in the Time of Covid

Author Lawrence Wright was recently in conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition, about his brand-new book, “THE PLAGUE YEAR: AMERICA IN THE TIME OF COVID” (Knopf). Acclaimed for bringing “a clear-eyed, investigative fearlessness” (The Washington Post) to a diverse range of topics, Lawrence Wright is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower, an in-depth history of the rise of violent extremism and the intelligence failures […]

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National Book Festival 2021 VIDEO Interview With Lawrence Wright About “THE PLAGUE YEAR: America in the Time of COVID”

In the video down below Lawrence Wright discusses “The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID” (Knopf) with philanthropist and National Book Festival co-chairman David M. Rubenstein. For more information about the Library of Congress National Book Festival, please CLICK HERE!

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THE NEW YORKER RADIO HOUR: Lawrence Wright’s New Book on THE PLAGUE YEAR: AMERICA IN THE TIME OF COVID (Knopf)

The Host of THE NEW YORKER RADIO HOUR, David Remnick, recently talked with the Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Lawrence Wright about his new book, THE PLAGUE YEAR: AMERICA IN THE TIME OF COVID (Knopf). Here is that podcast:

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Book Tour Video – THE PLAGUE YEAR: AMERICA IN THE TIME OF COVID by Lawrence Wright

Join LAWRENCE WRIGHT, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower (9/11), for an unprecedented, momentous account of COVID-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it. From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Wright will share the story of COVID-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of […]

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WASHINGTON POST LIVE: Author Lawrence Wright on his New Book ‘THE PLAGUE YEAR: AMERICA IN THE TIME OF COVID’

Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter who was one of the first to warn of global pandemics. In his latest book, “The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID (Knopf, Book Cover Design by Chip Kidd),” Wright shares what he’s learned from studying the origins, the politics and the ongoing threats of the pandemic and what that means for Americans and the world. In the YouTube Video down blow Lawrence Wright joins Washington Post […]

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