From December 23rd to January 1st, we will be showcasing our most notable conversations of the year. Today’s show: New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for “The Looming Tower,” his nonfiction book chronicling the rise of al-qaeda. And with a new novel, he’s once again chillingly prescient. Wright joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his fiction focused on a pandemic upending the world, written months and months before our current crisis. The book is called “The End of October: A Novel.”