- Kurt Andersen
Kurt Andersen (born August 22, 1954) is an American
novelist who is currently a columnist for "New York Magazine " ("The Imperial City"), and host of the Peabody-winning public radio program "Studio 360 ", a co-production betweenPublic Radio International andWNYC . In 1986 withE. Graydon Carter he co-founded "Spy" magazine, which they sold in 1991; it continued publishing until 1998. Previously he was a columnist for "The New Yorker " ("The Culture Industry") and "Time" ("Spectator"). In 1999 he co-founded with Michael Hirschorn and Deanna Brown an online media news web site calledInside.com , which they sold toPrimedia ; Primedia closed the site in October 2001.Andersen was born in
Omaha, Nebraska and now lives inBrooklyn ,New York City ,New York with his wife [http://www.annekreamer.com/ Anne Kreamer] and his two daughters, Kate and Lucy.Literary works
Andersen is the author of two novels, "
Turn of the Century " (Random House , 1999), which was a national bestseller, and the "New York Times" bestseller "Heyday" (Random House, 2007). He has also published a book of humorous essays, "The Real Thing" (Doubleday, 1980; Holt, 1982), aboutquintessentialism .Along with Carter and George Kalogerakis he assembled a history and greatest-hits anthology of "Spy" called "", published in 2006 by
Miramax Books .In addition, he has co-authored two humor books, "
Tools of Power " (Viking, 1980), a parody ofself-help books on becoming successful, and "Loose Lips " (Simon & Schuster , 1995), an anthology of edited transcripts of real-life conversations involving celebrated people, and has contributed to many other books, such as "Minus Equal Plus " (Harry N. Abrams ) and "Mirth of a Nation " (Perennial, 2000).External links
* [http://www.kurtandersen.com/ Andersen's website]
* [http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/show.html Studio 360]
* [http://www.rakemag.com/stories/section_detail.aspx?itemID=3456&catID=153&SelectCatID=153 Rake magazine interview]
* [http://nymag.com/nymag/author_kurtandersen Kurt Andersen's New York Magazine Archive]
* [http://www.pri.org Public Radio International]
* [http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/38948 "The Age of Apoplexy", a critical look at America's current hypersensitivity]
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