A Novelist's Take on the Arizona Tragedy

Studio 360 | Jan 14, 2011

As events unfolded in Arizona this week, novelist Walter Kirn turned to Twitter to express what he was seeing and feeling. Kirn tells Kurt how Jared Loughner resembles a character he created for his novel, The Unbinding, and how he fears that our digital world is breeding characters who are similarly unhinged from reality.

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