As events unfolded in Arizona this week, novelist Walter Kirn turned to Twitter to express what he was seeing and feeling. Kirn tells Kurt how Jared Loughner resembles a character he created for his novel, The Unbinding, and how he fears that our digital world is breeding characters who are similarly unhinged from reality.
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