The Deep End hosted by Walter Kirn is an uninhibited journey to the
extremes of experience and thought – the ultimate intellectual trip.
Imagine Einstein, Timothy Leary and the Marquis de Sade brainstorming
late into the night. Challenging, seductive and boundary-breaking this
is the place where today’s most daring thinkers and bravest cultural
adventurers question what is and dream of what’s to come. Walter
Kirn is a novelist (Up In The Air, Thumbsucker, Trapped in The
Meritocracy) critic, editor, and essayist. He is the National
Correspondent for the New Republic and an editor at large for
Byliner.Com. A former contributing editor at Time and Vanity Fair and
the former literary editor of GQ, his work has appeared in numerous
national magazines and newspapers, including the New Yorker, the New
York Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and New York, where he was the
chief book critic for many years. His book reviews have also appeared
regularly on Slate.com and in The New york Times Sunday
