[HN Gopher] Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry
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       Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry
        
       Author : samclemens
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-09-12 16:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (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.
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       | 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!
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       | > 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.
        
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