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“Up in the Air” rocks, but winning “X-Mormon of the Year” rules.

Chino Blanco, February 5, 2010February 5, 2010

Walter Kirn explains why the William Law X-Mormon of the Year
award means more to him than anything Hollywood has to offer:

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Comments (13)

  1. Hellmut says:
    February 5, 2010 at 9:54 am

    That’s hilarious. I definitely have to read Walter Kirn’s books.

  2. chanson says:
    February 5, 2010 at 10:41 am

    That is fabulous!!!

    What a cool guy. OK, I’m moving some of his books up to the top of my to-read pile. 😀

  3. Chino Blanco says:
    February 5, 2010 at 10:53 am

    I’m running Firefox 3.6 on a Mac and the masthead is nowhere to be seen. Anybody else not seeing a masthead?

  4. wry catcher says:
    February 5, 2010 at 11:18 am

    Masthead=missing, totally.

    Love the video clip.

  5. profxm says:
    February 5, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    Sorry about the masthead issue. I was sent a new masthead and tried to get it working, but apparently the file was corrupt. I tested it on Google Chrome, and Chrome rendered it despite it being corrupt. Firefox didn’t. So, until I get a non-corrupted version back, the old masthead is back.

  6. Chino Blanco says:
    February 5, 2010 at 7:23 pm

    Please give me a shout if this doesn’t display properly at the link:

    http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f394/Chino_Blanco/XMO-Masthead.jpg

    Otherwise, grab it! 🙂

  7. wayne says:
    February 6, 2010 at 7:10 pm

    His books are on my list now.

  8. wry catcher says:
    February 7, 2010 at 2:55 am

    Nice masthead! The younger Mr Kirn looks like Kevin Bacon. I wonder how many degrees that is.

  9. wry catcher says:
    February 10, 2010 at 1:58 pm

    Did Walter Kirn abandon us once he was covered in glory from his award? Where’s the acceptance speech?

  10. chanson says:
    February 10, 2010 at 9:54 pm

    He’ll probably come back once the newspapers cover this story! 😀

  11. Chino Blanco says:
    February 10, 2010 at 10:10 pm

    Seems like he’s pretty busy giving interviews since winning the USC Libraries Scripter Award. If we don’t hear anything soon, I’ll go ahead and write up the press release.

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  13. aerin says:
    March 15, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    I am a year late, but I just finished the book and it was great.

    Well written with a fresh perspective- my only beef is with the ending, which is undoubtedly intended as ironic.

    I highly recommend the book to all former mormons, or people who appreciate character development OR, most importantly, anyone who has had to sit through any business motivational speeches or training.

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