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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. Oct 18, 2024 · Oct. 4, 2024. In 2021, the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz had a hit with “The Plot,” a book that was partly a mystery, partly a thriller and entirely a delicious sendup of the publishing industry. It told the tale of a once-promising writer, Jacob, who steals somebody else’s story idea and reaches undreamed-of lev….

  3. UP IN THE AIR. Walter Kirn, . . Doubleday, $23.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-385-49710-7. The message of Kirn's new novel is that the "dark Satanic mills" that power the capitalist system no longer run on ...

  4. Up in the Air. By WALTER KIRN. Doubleday. Read the Review. To know me you have to fly with me. Sit down. I'm the aisle, you're the window—trapped. You crack your paperback, last spring's big legal thriller, convinced that what you want is solitude, though I know otherwise: you need to talk. The jaunty male flight attendant brings our drinks ...

  5. 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]

  6. Dec 3, 2009 · Directed by Jason Reitman. Drama, Romance. R. 1h 49m. By Manohla Dargis. Dec. 3, 2009. For most people there’s no joy in sucking down recycled oxygen while hurtling above the clouds. The free ...

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  8. Jul 3, 2001 · Up In the Air. Hardcover – July 3, 2001. by Walter Kirn (Author) 3.8 302 ratings. See all formats and editions. Meet Ryan Bingham, thirty-five, corporate consultant, very frequent flier, citizen of the transient realm he calls "Airworld." With his cell phone, his handheld computer, and his wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks and jackets, he's ...

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