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 between Public Radio International and WNYC New York. In 1986 with E. 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 called Inside.com, which they sold to Primedia; Primedia closed the site in October 2001. Andersen was born in Omaha, Nebraska and now lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York with his wife Anne Kreamer and his two daughters, Kate and Lucy. Kreamer graduated from Harvard College.

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), about quintessentialism. 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 of self-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

• Andersen's website
• Studio 360
• Rake magazine interview
• Kurt Andersen's New York Magazine Archive
• Public Radio International
• The Age of Apoplexy, a critical look at America's current hypersensitivity