Vanitas vanitatum …

…Interview: Walter Kirn, Author Of 'Blood Will Out' : NPR. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

When Kirn was just starting his novel-writing career, he met a man who was a bold financier, an art collector, a fussy eccentric, a dog lover and a Rockefeller. They became friends.

But over the years Kirn began to learn that the man who called himself Clark Rockefeller was none of that — not even a dog lover. He was a psychopath and a killer.