Doug is joined in studio by the writer Walter Kirn, whose latest book is the story of his friendship with a man he knew as Clark Rockefeller. Kirn found him charming, intelligent, if a bit eccentric, and he enjoyed rubbing elbows with someone well-off and upper-class. But it was a ruse, and the man was eventually exposed as a fraud, a sociopath and a murderer. So how was Walter Kirn so handily duped? "Rockefeller" himself explained it this way: vanity, vanity, vanity. (Rebroadcast)
Walter Kirn is the author of five novels, including Up in the Air [Indiebound|Amazon] and Thumbsucker [Indiebound|Amazon]. His latest book is called is called Blood Will Out [Indiebound|Amazon]
