Walter Kirn today on CBS This Morning

Walter Kirn, who visits Albany next week (!), talks with Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell about his friendship with con artist and murderer Clark Rockefeller, today on CBS This Morning:

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/novelist-on-real-life-friendship-with-conman-clark-rockefeller/

Kirn will be featured again on 48 Hours this Saturday at 10 p.m. ET/PT

https://www.facebook.com/48hours

See Walter Kirn LIVE this coming Tuesday at UAlbany:

Walter Kirn, journalist, and fiction and nonfiction writer
March 25 (Tuesday)
Seminar — 4:15 p.m., Assembly Hall, Campus Center, Uptown Campus
Reading — 8:00 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, Uptown Campus

Walter Kirn is the author of the new nonfiction book Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade (2014), about the author’s 10-year “friendship” with Clark Rockefeller, the serial con artist and murderer. Currently serving a life sentence, Rockefeller was convicted of a 1985 killing in 2009. Kirn is the National Correspondent for the New Republic, where he covers “politics and culture and their convergence.” His books include the memoirs, My Mother’s Bible (2013) and Lost in the Meritocracy (2009), and the novels, Up in the Air (2001), and Thumbsucker (1999) that were made into major films. (See Classic Film Series schedule March 7 listing for screening of UP IN THE AIR)

More about Kirn:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/kirn_walter14.html