Enough of Walter Kirn!
Ok,
This is a new one for my blog.
I love Terry Gross on NPR. I’ve probably listened to around one thousand interviews she has done and they are the most interesting you can find. Anywhere.
BUT… Her interview of Water Kirn is OVER THE LINE! Who was conned into doing what?
Ok, so this is the story: Walter Kirn, a novelist (who I never heard of but is apparently influential) was fooled into thinking this guy was a wealthy freak. Kirn even said in the interview that everyone was fooled, there were no examples of someone who was not fooled. Seriously?
No, during Gerhartsreiter’s entire life of deception, just about everyone who knew him, including ex-wives, figured out he was a lying freak. Everyone except Kirn, apparently. Read it in wikipedia. Why didn’t Kirn figure this out? Is he one of the few chosen ones who had never seen a con man prior to becoming an adult? Maybe. But now he can write a book about it.
Sorry Terry, you were conned into giving this con man an interview.
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