Writing
Kirn has published a collection of short stories and several novels. These include Thumbsucker (1999), which was made into a 2005 film featuring Keanu Reeves and Vince Vaughn. Kirn's 2001 novel, Up in the Air , has been characterized as a literary chronotope relating to the genre of road narratives. [4] It was made into a 2009 film directed by Jason Reitman. Starring George Clooney and Anna Kendrick, it was a commercial success and went on to receive critical acclaim as well as numerous nominations and awards. [5]
In 2005, Kirn took over blogger Andrew Sullivan's publication while Sullivan was on vacation. He also wrote The Unbinding, an Internet-only novel that was published in Slate magazine. [6]
Kirn's 2013 memoir, Blood Will Out , is an account of his relationship with the convicted murderer and imposter Christian Gerhartsreiter, who had initially approached Kirn using the alias "Clark Rockefeller".
He has also reviewed books for New York Magazine and has written for The New York Times Book Review, New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Atlantic and Spy, and is a contributing editor of Time , where he has received popularity for his entertaining and sometimes humorous first-person essays, among other articles of interest. He also served as an American cultural correspondent for the BBC.
In 2023, Kirn and David Samuels launched County Highway, a magazine about America in the form of a nineteenth-century newspaper. Donald Rosenfeld is the publisher.
Since 2022, Kirn has been co-hosting the America This Week podcast with Matt Taibbi.
On the January 10, 2025 episode of America This Week [7] , Kirn said he had finished writing a screenplay titled In Recent Times, which he described as "basically a holistic view of how [California] works from a satirical point of view."
On the March 28, 2025 episode of America This Week, [8] , Kirn said: "I accepted a job to write a movie based on [Jay Bhattacharya's] story... It’s a satirical movie. It’s loosely based on his life, his adventure. It’s kind of like Network or Dr. Strangelove in tone. It satirizes the entire COVID era, but from an angle -- my disease is a rash, a skin condition, not a cough... I simply wanted to tell the story of someone who stood up at a time of what I would consider mass hysteria, had no idea how it would turn out."
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