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Lost in the meritocracy Lost in the meritocracy Walter Kirn Percentile is destiny in America."So says Walter Kirn, a peerless observer and interpreter of American life, in this whip-smart memoir of his own long strange trip through American education. Working… OL14912980W
Up in the air Up in the air Walter Kirn "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 anonymou… OL17200283W
Blood will out Blood will out Walter Kirn In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog f… OL23182963W
Up in the Air Up in the Air Walter Kirn 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 cal… OL88002W