New Yorker‘s Lawrence Wright Admits He Was ‘Unnecessarily Snarky’ to Unabomber on Twitter

Lawrence Wright apologized on Twitter Monday for a snarky tweet in which he mocked Theodore Kaczynski (aka the “Unabomber”).

After consideration I agree with my critics that my response to the Unabomber was unnecessarily snarky. His mental illness is sadly evident.

— Lawrence Wright (@lawrence_wright) May 23, 2016

Wright was referring to a tweet he posted the previous day in which he re-published a hand-written letter from Kaczynski, looking to see if the New Yorker staff writer would be at all interested in an exclusive interview.

If interested, Kaczynski asked that Wright submit a list of a questions he planned to ask, affirm in writing that “you understand I am NOT mentally ill,” and explain to the man currently incarcerated in a supermax prison “why I should trust you.”

Wright posted the letter and his response publicly:

The Unabomber reached out. Thanks, Ted, you’re not nuts at all. pic.twitter.com/enTCOO02MI

— Lawrence Wright (@lawrence_wright) May 22, 2016

Kaczynski is serving multiple consecutive life sentences, but that has not stopped him from becoming something of a man of letters. He wrote a missive to the editors of the New York Review of Books in 2005 responding to an article about dwarves.

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