Staff writer for The New Yorker. Author of The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and God Save Texas. Screenwriter, playwright, keyboard player for Austin band WhoDo.
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Nice surprise from the editors at NYT. nytimes.com/2026/10/22/books…
The Guardian has this wonderful offering on pub day for REDEMPTION. theguardian.com/books/2026/o…
It's pub day at last for REDEMPTION: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row." I was greeted by this thoughtful interview with Texas Monthly's Skip Hollandsworth. texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
Pub day tomorrow. This book is dear to me. I hope it will find readers to support it. If you're on one of the towns on this tour card, come down and say hello.
Lovely interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep about "REDEMPTION." tomorrow is pub day.
npr.org/2026/10/19/nx-s1-560…
"Wright’s latest master class in narrative nonfiction." Tuesday is pub day!
nytimes.com/2026/10/17/books…
“’Reporters are skeptics by nature’ is the first line in Lawrence Wright’s Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row. It may be Wright’s most personal work of journalism... will challenge readers’ assumptions about guilt, justice, and transformation.”
Redemption, Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is one of the great narrative journalists of our time so it is fitting—and important—that he now turns his attention to one of America’s most urgent moral issues: capital punishment.
A few years ago I was dropping off my son and his family at the Austin airport when I noticed some light stanchions in the distance. They seemed out of place, so I wondered over to look. It took me back twenty years ago...
It infuriates me to see the Kennedy Center threatened with demolition. It was the site of one of my fondest memories. Let's keep politics out of this cultural treasure.
Reading the audiobook of REDEMPTION: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row. One of the most moving stories I’ve ever encountered. Out in October.
Filmmaker Rick Linklater's side hustle: creating his own art museum called 9 Boxes. All done in laminated wood. An exuberant spectacle and a singular vision. (Some of the shapes derive from photos he took of gum on NYC sidewalks.)
We loss Pat Oliphant the most irreverent man I ever knew. He’s modeling the clay of the lady cannoneer in downtown Austin.
A memorable night a decade ago when Marcia Ball and Floyd Domino traded licks on my piano. A memorable night a decade ago when Floyd Domino and Marcia Ball traded licks on my piano. youtube.com/watch?v=IXBvQ5IL…
Great first review of "Redemption," coming 10/20: Wright is well known for his books on al Qaeda, Scientology, and other “closeted worlds.” This book looks into two of them: the women’s death row in a prison outside Waco, Texas, and a breakaway convent banned by the Vatican...
In this distressing conflict with Iran, a reminder of the nature of that regime. nytimes.com/2026/06/23/world…
Mark Singer was the first New Yorker writer I ever met. I was envious of his success but admiring of his humor and humility. He was a generous spirit, but also edgy, always curious, the very qualities that made him the quintessential New Yorker writer. nytimes.com/2026/06/21/obitu…
It's a plea to hold up the standards of the most venerated news show in broadcast history. mediaite.com/media/dan-rathe…
If you've never been to the Mount, this is a great opportunity. C'mon by and say hi.
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