Walter Kirn

Bumming Favors Off Big Brother

Maxwell Searcy | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Google, Walter Kirn, Online Communication, Arab Spring, Egypt Revolution, Voyeurism, Facebook, High School News
Maxwell Searcy

With Americans spending as much time surfing the web (usually for YouTube videos of cats flushing toilets) as watching TV, we have to ask ourselves how this shift is affecting our real lives.

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The Value of Stuff

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Walter Kirn, Yoga, Max Strom, Money, Ebay, Value, Commerce, Business, Possessions, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Lee Schneider

If you look at the value of things in terms of numbers, well, it can get you nuts. Since going nuts is expensive, I'm trying to think of markets differently.

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'Up In The Air' Author Walter Kirn Slams Oscar Snub Over Twitter

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walter Kirn, Awards Season, Up in the Air Writer, Up in the Air, The Oscars, Oscars 2010, Up in the Air Snub, Film, Up in the Air Oscar, Entertainment News

'Up in the Air' author Walter Kirn didn't receive an Oscar invite and he has taken to Twitter to vent. "Caution to writers: Don't expect that becaus...

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The Inbox Stuffer: Five Articles To Read Over the Holidays

Delia Lloyd | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Inbox Stuffers, Anne Patchett, Pavel Somov, A Christmas Carol, Green, Naughties, Gordon Brown, Walter Kirn, Recommended Reading, British Politics, Decade Review, Druids, Winter Solstice, Healthy Living News
Delia Lloyd

In an information age it's so much more useful (not to mention fun) to expand our loved one's minds - rather than their cupboards - by sending them a list of our favorite readings.

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The 10 Best Books of 2009

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Daniyal Mueenuddin, East Bay Grease, Philip K. Dick, The Fire Gospel, Paul Starobin, Christopher Miller, Syrian Immigrants, Chloe Aridjis, Michael Faber, Home Boy, In Other Rooms Other Wonders, Dave Eggers, The Naked Eye, Azhar Abidi, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, Brownsville: Stories, Torsten Krol, A Good Fall: Stories, Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank, Steve Hely, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, Melissa Kwasny, Zeitoun, Book of Clouds, Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk Museum of Innocence, Yoko Tawada, Kamila Shamsie, Oscar Casares, The Thing Around Your Neck, Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, H. M. Naqvi, Chris Hedges, Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever, Carolyn Chute, A Free Life, Barbara Ehrenreich, Walter Kirn, Eric Miles Williamson, After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age, Ali Sethi, Franz Wright, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Amigoland, Callisto, Books News
Anis Shivani

Anis Shivani picks his top 10 books for 2009.

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American Malaise: Up In the Air

xxxElisabeth Donnellyxxx | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vera Farmiga, Walter Kirn, Up in the Air, George Clooney, Anna Kendrick, Jason Reitman, Tribeca Film, Entertainment News
xxxElisabeth Donnellyxxx

We talked to director Jason Reitman, stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick, and author Walter Kirn about their timely Up in the Air, a beautiful film about job loss and human connection.

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Movie Review: Up In The Air Soars

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vera Farmiga, Walter Kirn, Up in the Air Movie Review, George Clooney, Anna Kendrick, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Jason Reitman, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

I've been touting Up in the Air as the year's best film since I saw it in Toronto in September -- and I still haven't seen anything that has changed my mind.

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Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ivory Tower, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Aphasia, Derrida, Ivy League, Mormonism, Lost in the Meritocracy, Intellectuals, Meritocracy, Yale, Harvard, Walter Kirn, Education, Keasbey Scholarship, Wall Street, High Schools, Princeton, Western Canon, Competition for Ivy League, Rhodes Scholarship, Theory, Schools, Academia, Education Reform, Higher Education, Public Education, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Postmodern Theory, Learning, Elite, Oxford University, Class, Oxford, Minnesota, Ruling Elite, Income Inequality, Great Books, Classics, Humanities, Politics News
Anis Shivani

Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.

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Testing, Testing

Walter Kirn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walter Kirn, Education, Lost in the Meritocracy, Apticrats, Politics News
Walter Kirn

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

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