Pulitzer winner Lawrence Wright’s new novel eerily prescient about coronavirus

The New York Post details Lawrence Wright’s new book “The Looming Tower” which predicts the emergence of a “devastating virus” originating in Asia and then going global. In an Interview with Media Ink, Wright says, “Many countries like to hide their health problems for many reasons — from business to tourism — but they are always poor reasons.” “It’s unnerving to see so much of what I wrote happening before our eyes,” said Wright. “All I did is look at trends and ask, ‘What would happen if?’”

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Karen Greenberg