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Walter Kirn


Born
in Akron, The United States
August 03, 1962

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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: 3.25 · 16,759 ratings · 2,323 reviews · 39 distinct worksSimilar authors
Blood Will Out: The True St...

3.25 avg rating — 4,817 ratings — published 2014 — 33 editions
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Up in the Air

2.89 avg rating — 5,185 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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The Stones, the Crows, the ...

3.48 avg rating — 1,495 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
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Thumbsucker

3.47 avg rating — 1,341 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions
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Lost in the Meritocracy: Th...

3.23 avg rating — 1,020 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
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There's a Bear in the House!

3.85 avg rating — 762 ratings3 editions
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Mission to America

3.20 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
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The Unbinding

2.70 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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My Hard Bargain

3.75 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions
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She Needed Me

3.39 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
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“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
Walter Kirn, Mission to America

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

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

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