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Reading the shopworn stereotypes and outlandish characterizations of central Nevada in Walter Kirn's piece "Conspiracy, U.S.A." made me suspect the authenticity of the reporting on the other places. Do brothels and junk stores offer an accurate window into Nevada's towns? Or perhaps you were just looking for something colorful from the Wild West. At best, the Nevada story was condescending. It is a good example of how presuppositions can control perceptions. ED IVERSON Fallon...
...WALTER KIRN brings a unique perspective to this week's story on the reading renaissance in the U.S. He recently joined TIME as a contributor after spending three years as a book reviewer for New York magazine and has just completed his third work of fiction, a novel called Thumbsucker. As a critic, says Kirn, you're always curious as to whether anyone is following your advice or heeding your warnings. "People's reading habits are a murky subject," he says. "Unless you catch people in the act, you really have no idea of what's actually happening. There were...
Americans are still dealing in misconceptions about theologically conservative Christianity. Consider the critical success of Walter Kirn's She Needed Me, a novel about a love affair between a fundamentalist Christian anti-abortion rights protester and the pregnant woman he stops from entering a clinic. Everyone from Entertainment Weekly to the Wall Street Journal has praised the book; even Sassy raves that the novel should be recommended "to anyone who is serious about understanding all possible perspectives of our current abortion issue...
...teenagers before he finally choked to death; three of the suspects, like Tay, were Asian Americans who were viewed as model kids and top students. The alleged mastermind, Robert Chan, 18, is expected to plead not guilty to murder charges this week. The four other defendants, Abraham Acosta, 16, Kirn Kim, 16, Mun Kang, 17, and Charles Choe, 17, have pleaded not guilty and will learn on Feb. 5 whether they, like Chan, will be tried as adults and eligible for life in prison. One father captured the feelings of the families. "Everything was going perfect," Chih-Tung Chan...
HERE IS THE UNLIKELIEST GOOD NOVEL of the year. The wambling hero of Walter Kirn's SHE NEEDED ME (Pocket Books; $20) is a pale young fellow named Weaver % Walquist, who, becalmed and lacking direction, joins the antiabortion protest squad of an evangelical church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He collides with a pregnant young woman named Kim during a protest at an abortion clinic, and at first is attracted to the idea of saving her fetus and her soul. Then, faintly -- a puff of wind ruffles the calm -- he is attracted to her. Kirn, author of a 1990 story collection...