Walter Kirn. Norton/Liveright, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-87140-451-0
In the summer of 1998, Kirn (Up In the Air) was a struggling writer, taking assignments where he could get them, when he accepted an odd task: transporting a crippled dog from a Montana animal shelter to New York City, where a wealthy benefactor...
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Walter Kirn, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-49710-7
The message of Kirn's new novel is that the "dark Satanic mills" that power the capitalist system no longer run on the sweat of the laboring masses—they are now fueled by the hot air of the therapeutic-industrial complex, that...
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Walter Kirn, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-385-50764-6
Various co-existing Americas get a bitter, resonant jibing from Kirn (Thumbsucker
) in his latest fiction of decadent culture on the skids. Founded in the 19th century, the Aboriginal Fulfilled Apostles are a doctrinal smorgasbord of health food...
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Walter Kirn, Author Anchor Books $14.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-49709-1
Dark and witty, novelist (She Needed Me) and book critic Kirn's narrative of demoralized 1980s suburbia chronicles the coming-of-age of Justin Cobb, a 14-year-old who develops a series of addictions after his dentist-cum-therapist breaks his thumb-su
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Walter Kirn, Author Anchor Books $13.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-307-27741-1
Kirn (Thumbsucker) serialized this neat surveillance culture satire on Slate.com in 2006. The web version makes a mostly smooth transition to print, except for items in bold that Kirn encourages readers to type into the book's accompanying web site.
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Walter Kirn, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (145p) ISBN 978-0-394-58303-7
A baker's dozen of short stories marks a disarming fiction debut by journalist Kirn. He reveals an American heartland where grandparents play along with TV game shows; Mormon missionaries go door-to-door, like Avon ladies, saving whole families;...
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Walter Kirn, Author, Kirn, Author, Judith Regan, Editor Atria Books $20 (240p) ISBN 978-0-671-78091-3
The narrator of this ironic first novel, Weaver Walquist, a born-again Christian and member of a militant anti-abortion group, slowly falls in love with Kim Lindgren, a pregnant junior college dropout whom he meets at a St. Paul, Minn., abortion...
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Walter Kirn, Author, Maryanne Sacco, Editor Washington Square Press $9 (145p) ISBN 978-0-671-79379-1
Thirteen short stories set in the American heartland mark a disarming fiction debut for journalist Kirn. (Nov.)
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