Apr. 10—MORGANTOWN — It first takes a leap of faith. More than anything else, that's what got the ball rolling for Griffin Kirn. "When I entered the (transfer) portal, I just felt it was time, " the ...

“I was in the mood for an adventure…. I was a writer, even more importantly a writer between books, and I had a hunch I was going to meet a character.” Thus Walter Kirn, language artist, enters the ...

Early in his life, Walter Kirn banged hard against the castle walls of class in America. In his 2009 memoir – “Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever” – he described how class ...

Feb. 21—MORGANTOWN — Steve Sabins emphasizes two words in describing pitcher Griffin Kirn: ultimate trust. That showed last week, as the Mountaineers (3-0) began the college baseball season with a ...

The Kyle Rittenhouse case reminds Walter Kirn of an incident from his youth in rural Minnesota. “I remember one night, as a Midwestern kid out in the country, sitting with a loaded gun at the top of ...

Walter Kirn’s new profile of the serial liar and convicted murderer known as “Clark Rockefeller” is no ordinary work of true crime and literary journalism. “Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, ...

Up in the Air author Walter Kirn’s Twitter reaction to not having been invited to the Oscars has been heard far and wide — his story’s been covered by the New York Times, the Post, and even Perez ...

It’s not often that a movie can capture the general public’s concern on a current issue and portray the feeling in a sensitive and grounded manner. Even rarer is when the movie is based on a book ...

Plunging into Princeton as a sophomore transfer student from Macalester College in the fall of 1980, Walter Kirn found himself adrift. Everyone around him was a preppie, policy wonk, science nerd, or ...

In a new feature, Jonathan Cohn, TNR’s longtime policy wonk, and Walter Kirn, a novelist covering his first presidential campaign, debate the week’s big political stories via Google chat. This week, ...

Clark Rockefeller's chilling confidence trick fooled American society. The author Walter Kirn was one of many to be taken in Walter Kirm at his home in Livingston, Montana, where Clark Rockefeller ...