Walter Kirn

Blut will reden: Eine wahre Geschichte von Mord und Maskerade (2014)

I really wanted to like this book - it has all the elements of something I'd love - true crime/trashy semi-celebrity story/good author. I've read a lot of Walter Kirn's magazine writing in the past and liked it. But something about this book didn't quite get there for me. It felt like a magazi...

Mission to America (2005)

Mission to America tells the story of two young men raised in an obscure, isolated Montana religious sect and what happens when they leave their cloistered world to recruit new blood for their unhealthily inbred clan. I liked this book, though not for reasons I would have expected. Many of the r...

Up in the Air (2002)

Thumbsucker (1999)

I really liked it. It was almost more of a series of vignettes than a novel, but it flowed nicely and was in chronological order.Justin is very likable as a main character, even though he is a jerk sometimes. And, ultimately the book is full of funny descriptions and back-hand comments like: "At...

The Unbinding (2007)