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You have a knack for being prescient, as was the case when you wrote the screenplay for the underrated Ed Zwick film The Siege, and now again with a novel on a pandemic. How do you manage to remain ahead of the curve with two of the most significant events of the last twenty-five years?

Lawrence Wright It's just a matter of asking "what if?" With The Siege, my question was "What if terrorism came to America, as it had already in London, Paris, Tel Aviv--what if it happened in New York?" I talked to counterterrorists and learned that they had been asking the same question. With this novel, I asked medical experts, "What would happen if something like the 1918 Spanish flu suddenly appeared. Would we be any better prepared than our ancestors?" The movie and the book are the answers to those questions.

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Do you see any relation between your novel and the nonfiction you've written? I'm especially interested if there's a connection to the theme of extreme belief, which has been a theme of your work in the past. Thanks in advance. Really looking forward to reading The End of October.

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You have a knack for being prescient, as was the case when you wrote the screenplay for the underrated Ed Zwick film The Siege, and now again with a novel on a pandemic. How do you manage to remain ahead of the curve with two of the most significant events of the last twenty-five years?

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Do you see any relation between your novel and the nonfiction you've written? I'm especially interested if there's a connection to the theme of extreme belief, which has been a theme of your work in the past. Thanks in advance. Really looking forward to reading The End of October.

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