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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. " 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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Blood Will Out: The True St... Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade 3.26 avg rating — 4,890 ratings — published 2014 —33 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Up in the Air Up in the Air 2.89 avg rating — 5,258 ratings — published 2001 —34 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Stones, the Crows, the ... The Stones, the Crows, the Grass, the Moon 3.47 avg rating — 1,610 ratings — published 2018 —3 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Thumbsucker Thumbsucker 3.48 avg rating — 1,355 ratings — published 1999 —7 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Lost in the Meritocracy: Th... Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever 3.24 avg rating — 1,031 ratings — published 2008 —11 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
There's a Bear in the House! There's a Bear in the House! 3.85 avg rating — 809 ratings —3 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Mission to America Mission to America 3.20 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 2005 —6 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Unbinding The Unbinding 2.71 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2007 —6 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
My Hard Bargain My Hard Bargain 3.74 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1990 —5 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
She Needed Me 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 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars

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

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― Walter Kirn, Up in the Air

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