5/28/2023 0 Comments Up in the Air by Walter Kirn![]() ![]() “It seemed evident to me that the country had become obsessed with fictional or almost fantastic pursuit of symbolic wealth in the form of stock values,” Kirn added. “When I wrote the book we were just coming to the end of a huge dot-com stock bubble,” he explained, referring to the time period between 19 that was characterized by over-investment in Internet-based companies that couldn’t turn profits. ![]() ![]() On the surface, it’s remarkable that a book about the pre-9/11 financial climate and job market could draw so many parallels to the America’s present situation.īut, says Walter Kirn, author of the original “Up in the Air” novel, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” More important, however, is the honest and straightforward depiction of a nation struggling economically and how a recession affects the everyday lives of so many people. The 2001 book and its 2009 Jason Reitman-helmed film adaptation tell the story of a man who flies around the country and fires people from their jobs. ![]()
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