Football Book Club: Lawrence Wright’s ‘Going Clear’

September 21, 2015 | 2 books mentioned

This week, Football Book Club will be reading Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright and posting essays about Brain Fever by Kimiko Hahn — its selection from last week — and life without the NFL. Going Clear was a  National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and has been turned into a documentary by HBO.

is the editor of The Millions, a writer, and a senior editor at Publishers Weekly. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. His fiction has appeared most recently in The Literary Review, Fawlt, and Encyclopedia.