It’s not TV it’s HBO — the book
Channels with Peter Kafka
How to Write a Novel About a Pandemic
HBO is part of what's then called Warner Media, which at that point finally had been sold to AT&T. There was a lot of chin stroking and teeth gnashing about what would become of HBO when it was owned by the phone company. And also while you're reporting us out with John Koblen, you've also got someone else writing basically the same history. What's it like to write a competitive book about a giant juicy subject in a pandemic? "I think any story I've ever worked on as a media reporter, there's multiple people telling that story"
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