Walter Kirn

Join author, Walter Kirn, for a discussion and reading of his new book, Blood will out.

In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn—then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage—set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor, child kidnapper, and brutal murderer.

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Blood will out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery and a Masquerade Walter Kirn “Dark and witty” (Publishers Weekly), Walter Kirn has been praised for his excoriating and exquisitely detailed satires of modern American life. Two of his novels, Thumbsucker and the “hilarious, often ingenious” (Time Out New York) Up in the Air, were adapted into popular films, and he is also the author of the memoir Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever. His work has appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review, among other publications. Kirn is also a contributing editor to Time and fiction editor for GQ. In a real-life case of In Cold Blood meets The Talented Mr. Ripley, Blood will out tells the story of Kirn’s 15-year friendship with a man he thought was merely an eccentric son of privilege, but was later revealed to be a conman and murderer. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

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In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor, child kidnapper, and brutal murderer. Kirn's one-of-a-kind story of being duped by a real-life Mr. Ripley takes us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the posh private clubrooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles. As Kirn uncovers the truth about his friend, a psychopath masquerading as a gentleman, he also confronts hard truths about himself. Why, as a writer of fiction, was he susceptible to the deception of a sinister fantasist whose crimes, Kirn learns, were based on books and movies? What are the hidden psychological links between the artist and the con man? To answer these and other questions, Kirn attends his old friend s murder trial and uses it as an occasion to reflect on both their tangled personal relationship and the surprising literary sources of Rockefeller's evil. This investigation of the past climaxes in a tense jailhouse reunion with a man whom Kirn realizes he barely knew a predatory, sophisticated genius whose life, in some respects, parallels his own and who may have intended to take another victim during his years as a fugitive from justice: Kirn himself. Combining confessional memoir, true crime reporting, and cultural speculation, Blood will out is a Dreiser-esque tale of self-invention, upward mobility, and intellectual arrogance. It exposes the layers of longing and corruption, ambition and self-delusion beneath the Great American con. Walter Kirn is the author of Thumbsucker and Up in the Air, both made into major films, as well as Lost in the Meritocracy, Mission to America, The Unbinding, and others. His work has appeared in GQ, New York, Esquire, and the New York Times Magazine.

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Walter Kirn , The Unbinding.

DATE: Thursday, April 09, 2009
AUTHOR: Walter Kirn (Writers At Work Series sponsored by Chris Davis, the Kansas City Public Library, UMKC, and Rainy Day Books)
TIME: 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Kansas City Public Library, Central Library, Helzberg Auditorium, 14 W 10th Street, Floor 5, Kansas City, Missouri 64105
CONTACT: Kansas City Public Library and UMKC Department of English
TEL: 816-701-3407 for reservations.
Walter Kirn’s most recent novel, The Unbinding was released as a serial on Slate.com before appearing in print. The Los Angeles Times says, “Kirn depicts technology as a looming Orwellian force . . . the loss of privacy makes for comedy, at first, and then for a sense of foreboding.” Kirn is a contributing editor to Time and GQ and a regular reviewer for the New York Times Book Review. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, GQ, Vogue, New York, and Esquire. His other works of fiction: My Hard Bargain: Stories, She Needed Me, Thumbsucker, and Up in the Air, which is currently being made into a movie by the director Jason Reitman. Kirn lives in Livingston, Montana.
The Writers at Work Series is free and open to the public. Walter Kirn's Books will be available for purchase at the Event courtesy of Rainy Day Books. (booksense)… (mer)