Kurt Andersen
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Kurt Andersen (born August 22, 1954) is an American author who 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.
He was born in Omaha, Nebraska and now lives in New York City with his wife Anne Kreamer and his two daughters, Kate and Lucy.
In 1999 he co-founded with Michael Hirschorn and Deanna Brown an online media news web site called Inside.com. It was sold to Primedia, which shut down the site in October 2001. Its staff included Michael Cieply, David Carr, Lorne Manly and Richard Siklos of the New York Times; Blender magazine editor-in-chief Craig Marks, Publishers Weekly editor-in-chief Sara Nelson, TV columnists Scott Collins (Los Angeles Times) and Stephen Battaglio (TV Guide), Wall Street Journal reporter Kyle Pope, Vanity Fair writer Seth Mnookin and New York writer Joe Hagan.
[edit] 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.
Along with Carter and George Kalogerakis he has assembled a history and greatest-hits anthology of Spy called Spy: The Funny Years (ISBN 1-4013-5239-1), published in October 2006 by Miramax Books.
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, Andersen has published a book of humorous essays—The Real Thing (Doubleday, 1980; Holt, 1982), about quintessentialism—and a novel, Turn of the Century, which was a national bestseller. His next novel, Heyday, was published by Random House in March 2007.
