Walter Kirn
@walterkirn
Editor-at-Large @CountyHwy. Books: Blood Will Out, Up in the Air, Thumbsucker, She Needed Me, Mission to America, My Hard Bargain, There's a Bear in the House!
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We came within a pencil shaving of losing everything. It would not have come back. I wouldn't be writing this. Forbidden. Nor would you be reading this. Forbidden.
Camps.
The darkness & silence of the camps.
I've met a few people who would have served, happily, as guards.
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Not often does Hollywood attempt existentialist endings, without illusion or false consolation, which dignify life as a predicament that need not be solved. This is from Up in the Air, Jason Reitman's movie of my novel about a man who is forever between things. And who chooses to live in the between space, owning nothing but his own choice to do so.
Most of the people in the first part of the clip are real Americans who lost their jobs around the time of 2008-2009 financial crisis. They are floating in uncertainty and telling us how it feels, for them.
My life was was quite uncertain itself back then, so the clip brings out a lot of emotion.
Thank you Michael for putting it up.
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I'm proud to call Laura a friend and she is doing the impossible, bringing into the light enormous secret suffering and showing a way through. We badly need to talk about it, about our own experiences first, and at last we are.
Change is happening. Thought I'd never see it.
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