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b'Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker.\\n\\u201dThere\\u2019s nothing more important about a person than their story. In a way, that\\u2019s who we are. And yet, memories fade and people die. So those stories disappear and the job of the journalist is to go out before that happens and accumulate the kinds of stories that are going to help us understand who we are, why we are, where we are right now in time, and try to thread those stories into a coherent narrative. In a way, you give it a kind of immortality. And that\\u2019s a big job. It\\u2019s a great privilege.\\u201d\\n\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@lawrence_wright\\n\\n00:30\\xa0Longform Podcast #83: Lawrence Wright\\n\\n\\n01:00\\xa0God Save Texas: a Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State\\xa0(Vintage Books \\u2022 2019)\\n\\n01:00\\xa0The End of October\\xa0(Penguin Random House \\u2022 2020)\\n\\n05:30\\xa0"Back in Egypt"\\xa0(The New Yorker \\u2022 April 2002)\\n\\n18:30\\xa0"The Plague Year"\\xa0(The New Yorker \\u2022 Jan 2021)\\n\\n19:00\\xa0"Zawahiri at the Helm"\\xa0(The New Yorker \\u2022 June 2011)\\n\\n35:00\\xa0Remembering Satan A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory\\xa0(Penguin Random House \\u2022 1995)\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'