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Kurt Andersen (born August 22, 1954) is an American writer, the author of novels and nonfiction as well as a writer for television and the theater. He was also a co-founder of Spy magazine, as well as co-creator and for its 20-year run host of the weekly Peabody Award-winning public radio program and podcast Studio 360.
Kurt is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Evil Geniuses and Fantasyland, as well as the bestselling novels You Can’t Spell America Without Me, True Believers, Heyday , and Turn of the Century.
Aug 11, 2020 · Sometime between then and now, the writer Kurt Andersen argues in his essential, absorbing, infuriating, full-of-facts-you-didn’t-know, saxophonely written new book, America lost one of its...
Studio 360 was a Peabody Award-winning weekly public radio show of interviews and reporting about the cutting edge and history of the arts and pop culture. It first aired in New York and Los Angeles and a few other cities in the fall of 2000; in 2020, at the time of its final episode, it was broadcast on more than 217 stations nationwide, and nearly a million people listened to each weekly ...
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History is a nonfiction book by Kurt Andersen, published in August 2020. It entered The New York Times Best Seller list for nonfiction at number 7, The Washington Post list at number 9, and the Los Angeles Times list at number 5.
In this deeply researched and brilliantly woven cultural, economic, and political chronicle, Kurt offers a fresh, provocative, and eye-opening history of America’s undoing, naming names, showing receipts, and unsparingly assigning blame—to the radical right in economics and the law, the high priests of high finance, a complacent and ...
Jan 25, 2021 · Kurt Andersen, the former Studio 360 host and longtime American cultural statesman, recalls sparring with Trump as his national profile grew in the 1980s while at Spy magazine, which...
