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Walter Norris Kirn (born August 3, 1962) [1] is an American novelist, literary critic, and essayist. He is the author of eight books, most notably Up in the Air , which was made into a film of the same name starring George Clooney .
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever is a 2009 memoir by Walter Kirn. It describes his own trip through the American education system from rural Minnesota to Princeton University. [1] The author also wrote an earlier essay under the same title for The Atlantic. [2] The book was reviewed twice in The New York Times.
He is the editor of County Highway, a magazine in the form of a 19th-century American broadsheet which he founded with Walter Kirn. [1] He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine , a longtime contributing editor at Harper's Magazine ; a contributor to The Atlantic , [ 2 ] N+1 , [ 3 ] The New Yorker [ 4 ] and other magazines; and ...
Walter Kirn, literary editor of GQ [102] Grant H. Palmer, lifelong employee of the Church Educational System and author of An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (2003) Levi Peterson, author of The Backslider [103] Arthur Pratt, tenth child of LDS Apostle Orson Pratt and Sarah Pratt, deputy U.S. marshal [104]
Mission to America is a novel by American novelist Walter Kirn.. The novel is narrated by Mason LaVerle, a member of a tiny religious sect in rural Bluff, Montana, called the Aboriginal Fulfilled Apostles, whose complicated views involve a kind of highly incorporative theology and a strict dietary regimen that facilitates healthy gastrointestinal activity.
Every month, thousands of Eritreans attempt to flee repression, torture and indefinite forced conscriptions by embarking on a dangerous journey to Europe.
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OPINION: Donna Brazile, who worked with Coretta Scott King to make MLK Day a federal holiday, makes sense of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy as President Biden leaves the White House and ...