Texas Writer Award recipient (2011) and New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Wright returns to the Texas Book Festival to discuss The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid, an exploration of the medical, economic, political, and social origins and implications of the COVID pandemic.

• Moderator: Evan Smith, Texas Tribune CEO and cofounder and Texas Writer Award recipient (2006)
• Format: This is a live, virtual event on CrowdCast (RSVP link above).
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Lawrence Wright, The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid