[HN Gopher] Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry ___________________________________________________________________ Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry Author : samclemens Score : 11 points Date : 2023-09-12 16:23 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (themillions.com) (TXT) w3m dump (themillions.com) | agar wrote: | Lonesome Dove was a revelation. A book I started reading twice | before finally finishing it on the third go. Somehow that time | the characters stuck, the landscape was seared into my brain, and | the story drew me in deep. No fan of Westerns, I still absolutely | loved it. Beautifully written, entertaining, and a clear | masterpiece. And yet, I've never really had the urge to read the | sequels. | | Consequently I read this profile with no knowledge of Lawrence | Wright. Enjoyed it too. But then got to the end and...Holy cow, | what a resume on this guy! | | > LAWRENCE WRIGHT is the author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda | and the Road to 9/11, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for | General Nonfiction and named one of Time's Top 100 Books of All | Time. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker and winner of three | National Magazine Awards. His 2013 book, Scientology, Hollywood, | and the Prison of Belief, was made into an HBO documentary that | won three Emmys, including one for best documentary. Wright is a | member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Society of | American Historians, and the American Academy of Arts and | Sciences. He plays keyboards in the Austin-based blues band | WhoDo. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-13 23:00 UTC)