Walter Kirn

Walter Kirn is a regular reviewer for Th e 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. He lives in Livingston, Montana.