In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
Walter KirnReason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
Walter KirnRequesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.
Walter KirnI disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an individual. The "me" in the book is a specialized version of me, the person who Clark manipulated and fooled. I could cover the same years of my life from an entirely different perspective in another book, by concentrating on my experience as a husband, say. But I was selective. I focused on my duping.
Walter Kirn