Kurt Andersen
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Kurt Andersen (born 1954- in Omaha, Nebraska), co-founded Spy magazine with E. Graydon Carter. A Harvard graduate, Andersen writes extensively on culture and politics. He currently writes for New York Magazine ("The Imperial City"). Previous columns include "The Culture Industry" in The New Yorker and "Spectator" in Time. Andersen also founded Inside.com. He is co-creator and host of the public radio program Studio 360 and lives in New York City with his wife Anne Kreamer and his two daughters, Kate and Lucy.
Literary Works
Kurt Andersen has co-authored two humor books, Tools of Power (Viking, 1980), a satire of self help books on becoming successful, and Loose Lips (Simon & Schuster, 1995), an anthology of edited transcripts of real-life conversations mostly involving celebrated people.
He has also contributed to many other books such as Harry N. Abrams' Minus Equal Plus and Mirth of a Nation, (Perennial, 2000).
On his own, Kurt Andersen has published a book of humorous essays -- The Real Thing (Doubleday, 1980; Holt, 1982), about quintissentialism -- and a novel: Turn of the Century, which was a national bestseller. His next novel, Wonderstruck, is scheduled to be published by Random House in January, 2007.