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Walter Kirn

Born

in Akron, The United States

August 03, 1962

Website

http://walterkirn.blogspot.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Walter Kirn is a regular reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, and his work appears in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Time, New York, GQ and Esquire. He is the author of six previous works of fiction: My Hard Bargain: Stories, She Needed Me, Thumbsucker, Up in the Air, Mission to America and The Unbinding. Kirn is a graduate of Princeton University and attended Oxford on a scholarship from the Keasby Foundation. " ...more

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REDWOOD TREE, BIG SUR

for Robert Stone

A tree is a needle
The rest is bark and age
It is the most immaterial of objects
Nothing but aspiration
A bridge of sighs
Yet it...

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Average rating: 3.26 · 17,234 ratings · 2,364 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade 3.26 avg rating — 4,914 ratings — published 2014 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Up in the Air 2.89 avg rating — 5,283 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stones, the Crows, the Grass, the Moon 3.48 avg rating — 1,649 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thumbsucker 3.48 avg rating — 1,360 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever 3.24 avg rating — 1,037 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There's a Bear in the House! 3.85 avg rating — 815 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mission to America 3.20 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unbinding 2.71 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Hard Bargain 3.75 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	She Needed Me 3.38 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Walter Kirn, Mission to America

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“Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.”
― Walter Kirn

tags: 2011, 2011-tuscon-shooting, blame-game, hypocrisy, twitter, witch-hunts

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“Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.”
― Walter Kirn, Up in the Air

tags: relaxation

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