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  1. Jul 1, 2001 · Walter Kirn. Walter Kirn is a regular reviewer for The 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.

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  2. Jul 3, 2001 · Show comments. Saturated with smart irony and ripe with a sense of dislocation, this third novel from the fiction editor of GQ (Thumbsucker, 1999, etc.) takes readers on a frenetic tour of Airworld, that in-flight zone of business travel where destinations bleed invisibly into connections, and connections become stations along a perpetual journey.

  3. The book received some good reviews and initially sold well until September 11, 2001 when sales slowed to a near halt. The cover with a cartoon of flying businesspeople (presumably reminiscent of The Falling Man) one of them on fire and hurtling earthward also hurt sales. Sales of the book were revived following Jason Reitman's film adaptation. [4]

  4. Jun 30, 2021 · Many a pun can be derived from the title of this Jason Reitman-directed piece. Maybe that was the point. As these characters trundle through their airport-bound lives, their love is, indeed, up in the air. Groan at the pun, it’ll be the same reaction to maintain for Up in the Air, which stars George Clooney as…

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  6. Books. Up in the Air. Walter Kirn. John Murray, 2010 - Fiction - 303 pages. Ryan Bingham's job as a Career Transition Counselor (he fires people) has kept him airborne for years. He hates his job, but he loves 'Airworld', finding happiness in pressurized cabins and anonymous hotel rooms, and pursuing a noble ultimate goal: one million frequent ...

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  8. Sep 24, 2002 · Up in the Air. Paperback – September 24, 2002. by Walter Kirn (Author) 3.7 310 ratings. See all formats and editions. Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld ...