March 12, 2014

LISTEN: Longform.org Interview at SXSW

Longform.org features Wright on their podcast, during their visit to Austin for SXSW. Features quotes like this gem:

"If I had the chance to interview Osama Bin Laden, should I kill him? It’s a fair question. Suppose we’re having dinner — should I stab him with the bread knife? Do I have a moral obligation to kill him? Or do I have a moral obligation as a reporter to simply hear him?"

You can download the episode [MP3] or visit Longform’s website to hear the interview.

• [6:00] Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Knopf • Jan 2013)
• [6:00] The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf • Aug 2006)
• [7:45] The Siege (Twentieth Century Fox • 1998)
• [14:45] "The Apostate" (The New Yorker • Feb 2011)
• [30:15] My Trip to Al-Qaeda (Jigsaw Productions • Apr 2010)