aw. RE: The Nobel Prize for War 2009 goes to ...

[Mark Kohut]

I believe that when Lawrence go the job in Texas, he commuted in order to let his family, his kids, keep their school/community continuity in nashville. he did it for them, they say, what his wife and he wanted for their kids.

Again, rightist wing-nuts can do the same too, I know. 

--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: aw. RE: The Nobel Prize for War 2009 goes to ...
> To: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 9:09 AM
> I know a couple people who know him
> (and his family) from when he worked in Nashville. They say
> he is a real good guy---I know this can be said of the
> public selves of many wing-nuts---but they mean it deeper.
> His sympathy
> for racial justice, say, lived out in his actions, his
> writing. 
> 
> He struggled to support his family between some gigs and
> his dedication was spoken of--as well as his talent. 
> 
> A...and I read (much of) The Looming Tower and think it is
> superb. 
> 
> --- On Fri, 12/4/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: aw. RE: The Nobel Prize for War 2009 goes
> to ...
> > To: "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 8:41 AM
> > Actually, I'd never heard of The
> > Looming Tower before posting that
> > link from the Matthew Yglesias Blog (one of my staple
> > political
> > blogs).  So I really know nothing about Lawrence
> > Wright.  So I Googled
> > him.  His bio sounds not at all like the Wig-nut you
> > describe:
> > 
> > http://www.lawrencewright.com/bio.html
> > 
> > Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter,
> playwright, and
> > a staff
> > writer for The New Yorker magazine.
> > 
> > He is a graduate of Tulane University, in New
> Orleans,
> > Louisiana, and
> > the American University in Cairo, where he taught
> English
> > and received
> > an M.A. in Applied Linguistics in 1969. Upon his
> return to
> > the U.S. in
> > 1971, Wright began his writing career at the Race
> Relations
> > Reporter
> > in Nashville, Tennessee. Two years later, he went to
> work
> > for Southern
> > Voices, a publication of the Southern Regional Council
> in
> > Atlanta,
> > Georgia, and began to freelance for various national
> > magazines. In
> > 1980, Wright returned to Texas to work for Texas
> Monthly.
> > He also
> > became a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. In
> December,
> > 1992, he
> > joined the staff of The New Yorker, where he published
> a
> > number of
> > notable articles, which have won him the National
> Magazine
> > Award for
> > Reporting as well as the John Bartlow Martin Award
> for
> > Public Interest
> > Magazine Journalism, and Overseas Press Club’s Ed
> > Cunningham Award for
> > best magazine reporting.
> > 
> > Wright is the co-writer (with Ed Zwick and Menno
> Meyjes) of
> > The Siege,
> > starring Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis and Annette
> > Bening, which
> > appeared in November 1998. He also wrote the script of
> the
> > Showtime
> > movie, Noriega: God's Favorite, directed by Roger
> > Spottiswoode and
> > starring Bob Hoskins, which aired in April 2000.
> > 
> > His history of al-Qaeda, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda
> and
> > the Road to
> > 9/11 (Knopf, 2006) was published to immediate and
> > widespread acclaim,
> > spending eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller
> list
> > and being
> > translated into twenty-five languages. It was
> nominated for
> > the
> > National Book Award and won the Lionel Gelber Award
> for
> > nonfiction,
> > the Los Angeles Times Award for History, the J.
> Anthony
> > Lukas Book
> > Prize, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein
> Book
> > Award for
> > Excellence in Journalism, and the Pulitzer Prize for
> > General
> > Nonfiction.
> > 
> > In 2006, he premiered his one-man play, "My Trip to
> > al-Qaeda," at The
> > New Yorker Festival, and then enjoyed a sold-out
> six-week
> > run at the
> > Culture Project in Soho. It is now being made into a
> > documentary film,
> > directed by Alex Gibney, who won the 2008 Academy
> Award for
> > Feature
> > Documentary.
> > 
> > Wright has published six previous books. City
> Children,
> > Country Summer
> > (Scribner's, 1979), In the New World: Growing Up with
> > America, 1960 -
> > 1984 (Knopf, 1988), Saints & Sinners (Knopf,
> 1993),
> > Remembering Satan
> > (Knopf, 1994), Twins: Genes, Environment, and the
> Mystery
> > of Identity
> > (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1997; Wiley & Sons,
> 1998),
> > and God's Favorite
> > (Simon & Schuster, 2000).
> > 
> > Wright is a member of the Council on Foreign
> Relations. He
> > also serves
> > as the keyboard player in the Austin-based blues band,
> Who
> > Do.
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:43 AM, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > I remember you mentioned The Looming Tower quite
> a
> > while back. I looked it up, but isn't Wright a fairly
> > right-wing guy, with a track record of slightly
> Islamaphobic
> > views? I'm going from memory, but I think he co-wrote
> the
> > screenplay for a dodgy Bruce Willis movie which
> contained
> > some pretty unpleasant stereotyping of muslims?
> > 
> 
> 
> 
>