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February 22, 2024

Sharing my love of Willie on Texas Monthly podcast.

Posted In: Audio, Austin, CASt

John Spong interviews me for the Texas Monthly podcast, One by Willie. We talk about the time I saw him debut his tune, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” at the launch of the statue we erected through CASt.

PODCAST: Pulitzer Prize Winner Lawrence Wright on the Existential Quality of Watching Willie Nelson and Trigger Grow Old Together ⟶

January 25, 2024

Great review of the new ‘God Save Texas’ docu-series on HBO.

From Daniel Fienberg’s review: 

“Anchored by Richard Linklater’s exceptional feature-length “Hometown Prison,” HBO‘s God Save Texas may only be a three-part anthology docuseries, but in those three parts, it manages to be wide-ranging, timely and vitally important.

“While the inspiration is Lawrence Wright’s book of the same title, and the focus is the Lone Star State, the template set by Linklater, Alex Stapleton and Iliana Sosa could be applied to personal/political hybrid storytelling delving into the fractured identities of all 50 states and the artists who call them home.”

The Hollywood Reporter: Richard Linklater Leads Powerfully Personal HBO Docuseries About the Lone Star State ⟶

September 29, 2023

October tour schedule is posted!

If you’re in DC, NYC, Chicago, don’t miss the chance to meet Lawrence Wright in person. 

OCTOBER 2 @ 7PM
Politics and Prose × Union Market
In conversation with Susan Glasser
Washington, DC

OCTOBER 5 @ 6PM
Rizzoli Bookstore
In conversation with David Grann
New York, NY

OCTOBER 18 @ 7PM
Lark and Owl Bookstore Event
Georgetown, TX

OCTOBER 22 @ 5PM
Exile in Bookville
In conversation with Elizabeth Wetmore
Chicago, IL

All times local

September 17, 2023

Lawrence Wright September Appearances

Here are the upcoming appearances! More will be posted for October soon.

February 25, 2023

Wright visits hometown of Dallas for interview.

Posted In: Interviews, Texas

Dallas Morning News: How Author Lawrence Wright Sees Dallas Fitting into Texas' Changing Narrative ⟶

February 23, 2023

Induction of Joe Ely to Austin City Limits Hall of Fame to air this Saturday.

February 09, 2023

Ben Stiller to star in TV series of “Three Identical Strangers.”

Posted In: Movies/TV, Twins

October 31, 2022

Wright inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Posted In: Awards

In September, Lawrence Wright was inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society and policy organization founded in 1780 that describes itself as “electing exceptionally accomplished individuals and engaging them in advancing the public good.”

Wright is pictured signing the Book of Members at an Induction Ceremony that celebrated recently elected artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors.

October 28, 2022

Remarks for Joe Ely’s induction to the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame

Posted In: Events, Austin

Wright made these remarks at ACL Hall of Fame 2022. A full recap of the evenings events can be found on ACL’s website.


It’s always been a mystery to me how the Panhandle, which is not known for being an artistic mecca, produced Jimmy Dean, Sonny Curtis, Tanya Tucker, Mac Davis, Delbert McClinton, Gary P. Nunn, Lloyd and Natalie Maines, the Gatlin Brothers, and more to be named later.

Except for the two years Georgia O’Keefe painted watercolors in Canyon, Texas, they’re all musicians. 

Joe Ely was born in Amarillo, which is where he first encountered rock and roll, in the form of Jerry Lee Lewis playing piano on a flatbed trailer in a dust storm. The audience covered their noses with bandanas and the wind blew over the microphone but young Joe Ely heard the call.

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