A Note from Lawrence Wright

In which all my secrets are revealed...

Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and Meghan O’Rourke all read Going Clear for this installment of Slate’s Audio Book Club.

In anticipation of the Texas Book Festival San Antonio Edition, the San Antonio Current and the San Antonio Express-News featured Wright, who will appear along with other notable Texas writers at the event on Saturday, April 13, 2013.

Current’s Q & A with Wright about Going Clear →

Express-News’ profile of Wright and Going Clear →

In the April 2013 edition of The New York Review of Books, Diane Johnson calls Going Clear an “evenhanded, chilling … investigation” of the Church of Scientology.

Wright … seems to have a particular ability to understand and explain issues related to religion, recovered memory, fanaticism, and deviance—and the nerve to withstand objections and threats.

A Note from Lawrence Wright

I'm looking forward to chairing what should be a fascinating discussion on Egypt in this historic moment.

Egypt In Transition: A Conversation With Lawrence Wright, Mohamed Elmenshawy, Samer Shehata, and Robin Wright

April 15th, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Fordham Law School, McNally Amphitheater
140 West 62nd Street, NYC

The San Francisco Examiner says Fallaci’s “personality and wit are pure theatrical gold.” Berkeleyside calls the play “distinctive and thought provoking,” agreeing that “Oriana Fallaci’s brilliant personality is fascinatingly presented.”

A Note from Lawrence Wright

There was such hope when I visited the House of Lords last month that UK's notorious libel laws could be reformed. Now, they have been — for the worse, it appears.

Wright sat down with Goodreads.com to discuss Going Clear and a range of other topics.

A Note from Lawrence Wright

I had the chance to speak to members of the House of Lords who are considering the new defamation bill that would allow my book and other public-interest journalism to be published in the UK. Now, it's essentially banned because of the libel laws.

Associated Press’s Nahal Toosi raves about Going Clear, going on to say the book “is a carefully written account, detached and with little sense of outrage apparent from the author's point of view... But that step-by-step, cautious approach adds to the book's value. Wright obviously understands that letting his findings speak for themselves is enough.”

A Note from Lawrence Wright

The watermelon: greatest sight gag in years.

Wright appears on The Colbert Report to discuss his new book, Going Clear, and the Church of Scientology with the famed comedian and talk show host.

Steve Inskeep interviews Wright about the new book, Going Clear, and the controversial Church of Scientology.

Posted by Lawrence Wright on The New Yorker Blog

“We will be arriving at gate B 11,” the flight attendant on American Airlines called out as we were landing in Boston. “That’s Batman 11. Your bags will be in luggage carousel C, that’s “C” for Captain America.”

“Well, nobody will forget that,” I said when the attendant, James Owens, replaced the microphone. I was standing in the bathroom queue.

Despite the book’s release in the United Kingdom being held up for legal reasons, The Guardian’s Sukhdev Sandhu “applauds an eye-opening account of America's most controversial religion.”

According to Sandhu, “the book is diligently researched, calmly expository, and full of fascinating side-stories.”

On the Media host Bob Garfield talks to Wright about Scientology and the new book, Going Clear.

Wright taped an interview with Charlie Rose, and had a chance to chat with Dustin Hoffman in the green room.

Fresh Air’s Terri Gross interviews Wright about Scientology and his process for writing the book, Going Clear.

WNYC’s Lopate interviews Wright on his new book about the Church of Scientology, Going Clear.

In addition to a more substantive interview with The Leonard Lopate Show about Scientology and Going Clear, Wright also informally shared what he's been reading, listening to, and even eating.

In anticipation of Wright’s appearance at the Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row event on January 29, he chatted about the new book, Going Clear, with Mark Guarino.

Cover of Sunday’s New York Times Book Review features Going Clear.

On the morning of the release of Going Clear, Wright appeared on NBC’s Today show.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, the publisher of Wright’s book, Going Clear, issued a response to the accusatory statement issued by the Church of Scientology.

Timed with today’s release of Going Clear, Rock Center’s Harry Smith takes an in-depth look at the book’s topic and one of its primary subjects, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter Paul Haggis. The episode airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.

According to Wright, “Paul Haggis has been a very courageous source for my book on Scientology, as he shows in this clip for the NBC Rock Center show this Thursday.”

A note from Lawrence Wright:

Jeffrey Goldberg really is all the things he says about me, which is why this means so much.

Hollywood Reporter just published excerpts of Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, coming out next week.

Legal threats from the Church of Scientology prompted United Kingdom publisher Transworld to cancel the release of Going Clear.

Newsweek unveils its most anticipated books of 2013, including Wright’s Going Clear.

The New York Times’s Charles McGrath made a trip down to Austin to talk with Wright about his upcoming book on Scientology and even catch a gig of Wright’s blues band, Who Do.

Flavorwire’s Emily Temple predicts Going Clear will be “the book that we’re all going to be talking about.”

Wright interviews Iranian Minister Ali Akbar Salehi about Iran's Nuclear Program at a Council on Foreign Relations event.

Wright had the chance to interview Mavis Staples at 2011 The New Yorker Festival.