Imagine you write a novel about a guy who is a frequent flyer.

Then, imagine that the cover looks like this:

Then, imagine that the actual date of the book’s publication party is September 11, 2001. Sales, needless to say, were not great and a movie deal was tabled.

But, nearly ten years late, as author Walter Kirn recounts in in the Daily Beast (“George Clooney Saved My Novel“), the book is a bestseller and the movie is topping the Golden Globe as well as Oscar lists.

Up in the Air (Movie Tie-in Edition) Walter Kirn Retail Price: $7.99 Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Anchor – (2009-11-24) ISBN / EAN: 0307476294 / 9780307476296

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