Kirn

The first, by my best friend from college Walter Kirn, is an entertaining but (for me, anyway) nightmarish reminiscence on trying to make it through Princeton called Lost in the Meritocracy, based on this essay Kirn wrote for The Atlantic.

Boing Boing 2009

Walter Kirn is one of my favorite authors, but this is my least favorite book of his.

Jason Reitman Adapting Walter Kirn's Up in the Air Next! « FirstShowing.net 2008

Though the Ginsberg one by Walter Kirn is pretty good.

Randomness 2006

Though the Ginsberg one by Walter Kirn is pretty good.

November 2006 2006

A fellow Montanan, Walter Kirn, is guest blogging for Andrew Sullivan.

Archive 2005-08-01 David 2005

A fellow Montanan, Walter Kirn, is guest blogging for Andrew Sullivan.

Kirn on Sullivan David 2005

Burns; and the "Kirn," or Harvest Home, the wind-up of the season, the epitome of the lyric joyousness of the whole year.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

He had not been allowed to enter either of the fighting services, so he took what of adventure the country afforded -- the rustic merry-making of the "Kirn" in the days of harvest home, the coastwise adventure of ships, and the midnight raid of the Free Traders with their clanking keg-irons and long defiles of pack horses crowning the fells and bending away towards the North star and safety.

Patsy 1887

"Kirn," Eponine said slowly, "I'm sorry, but I'm having a hard time concentrating on selecting an apartment when so much is happening to us.

The Garden of Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1992

Adapted from the book by Walter Kirn, George Clooney stars as a corporate traveler, with the focus on the emptiness contained within such an existence.

Vampires Are Among The Quartet Of Wide Releases In This Week’s Box Office Poll » MTV Movies Blog 2009