walter kirn

@walterkirn

Author of, among other books, Up in the Air, Thumbsucker, Blood Will Out (abt the murderer 'Clark Rockefeller'). Listen at

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  1. Jan 29

    So tired of their divide-and-conquer categories. If you prize free speech & free thought, the independence of the artist, freedom from surveillance & love and respect of neighbors regardless of race or background, you belong together & can work from there

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  2. Jan 29

    I wrote this column about the Trump-Russia folly and the new press-backed McCarthyism over a year ago. [Easy Chair] | A Grim Fairy Tale, by Walter Kirn | Harper's Magazine - Part 3 via

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  3. Jan 29

    Trump calling Kim, who has a few cruddy nukes, "Rocket man" is deemed a threat to global survival. The Dem Party spending a year and a half trying to start a new Cold War with ultra-nuclear Russia over misleading Facebook posts or something, totally cool

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  4. Jan 29

    In a way I'm grateful because this review has radicalized me on the subject

    Replying to @walterkirn @CathyYoung63
    To filter the work of Denis Johnson, perhaps the most visionary writer in the last fifty years of American literature, through such an odious and trivial ideological lens, just makes me heartsick.
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  5. Jan 29

    What in the world are you going on about? Lying about what? I never mentioned any of these matters. Not a single one,

    Replying to @bswagspeare @walterkirn
    (1) FBI didn’t lose those texts (2) McCabe’s wife received a $550k donation to her campaign from Gov. McAuliffe’s PAC (3) She lost that election in Nov. of 2015 before McCabe was even placed on the Clinton investigation You’re either willfully ignorant or purprosefully lying.
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  6. Jan 29

    I'm truly shocked. If this is acceptable contemporary liberal thought, I'm terrified. This is like: 'But what does Mann's neurotic intellectual narrator think of the deep full-blooded promise of National Socialism? Not enough. Not nearly enough.'

    Replying to @walterkirn
    "his narrators should have been a bit more woke […] Yet even when his stories are problematic" Good god. I cannot believe this kind of Internet philistinism is now considered passable in print
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  7. Jan 29

    You run a great one. You should know.

    I have learned that people who clamorously declare to love bookstores while standing inside a bookstore do not buy books at bookstores.
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  8. Jan 29

    (Now the PC idiots are walking on the fighting side of me. Silly politics is one thing. But I will DIE for literature) Denis Johnson's posthumous collection is beautiful. But does it critique or reinforce toxic masculinity?

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  9. Jan 29

    (Wow. My favorite writer trivialized by reductive pseudo-political insanity. I fear for art in this country if this continues) Denis Johnson's posthumous collection is beautiful. But does it critique or reinforce toxic masculinity?

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  10. Jan 29

    Oh boy. Now 'small-town America' and people in 'diners' (which are disappearing in small town America; I know because I live there) are supposedly monopolizing the news cycle. If only...

    By the way, if you're wondering why coverage of the huge marches yesterday seems kind of muted, it's because those hundreds of thousands weren't sitting in diners in small-town America, and therefore don't count. Also many of them were women.
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  11. Jan 29

    Right on. Is there any end in sight? I wonder.

    The Democratic Party had 16 years in which to come up with an alternative to restoring these people to power and it didn't even try. It took Donald Trump to finally destroy them as a viable political machine. Democrats need to own that shame.
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    Jan 28

    How DC operates in one quote

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  13. Jan 29

    Democrats have now wasted over a year on the intoxicating confabulated Trump-Russia tale while setting aside concern with real politics and policy. No progress on the issues. None. And now comes the brutal hangover

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  14. Jan 29

    I just made fun of the Grammy's on Twitter, but now I must contradict myself. Congratulations to my friend for winning one tonight. Excellent judgment was shown. He deserves every award he gets. He's a great artist.

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  15. Jan 28

    Be suspicious of conspiracy theories. Be also suspicious of people who use the term to debunk troublesome possibilities without evidence. As a politically connected multibillionaire once told me this: 'Conspiracies? How else do you think big things get done?'

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  16. Jan 28

    It's strange, but I've noticed that charging others with narcissism is almost always a sign of it

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  17. Jan 28

    The Grammy's aren't cool. They're like a grave marker for cool

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  18. Jan 28

    The big press has reached a consensus: Secrecy must be maintained. It's in your best interests, see. Also: spies should be trusted and protected and law enforcement believed, especially federal law enforcement. Elections, however, are for the birds

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  19. Jan 28

    That's how it works in a Democracy. We get to read gov't reports first and then we decide what we think of him. Your election to Congress did not place you in a special exalted class of 'knowers.'

    It comes as no surprise that would place his own interests ahead of the country. But it is tragic that so many Republican Members of Congress would choose to help him do so.
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  20. Jan 28

    The disasters predicted because of excessive candor and disclosure almost never happen. The disasters arising from excessive secrecy & information hoarding are virtually inevitable.

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