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Kurt Andersen

출생: September 22, 1954 – Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Kurt Andersen is an American novelist, journalist, and broadcaster whose work spans politics, culture, media, and American history. He co-founded Spy magazine, created and hosted the Peabody Award-winning public radio program Studio 360, and wrote books including Fantasyland, Evil Geniuses, and the novel True Believers.

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Born and raised in Nebraska, Kurt Andersen developed outside the coastal centers he later helped define. After graduating from Harvard College, he built a career that moved fluently among criticism, editing, satire, fiction, and broadcasting. His first decisive breakthrough came in 1986, when he co-founded Spy, the magazine whose sharp blend of reporting and satire helped set the tone for a generation of media writing. Another turning point followed when he became editor-in-chief of New York and then, in 2000, co-founded Inside, one of the early digitally native publications devoted to the media and entertainment business. ((https://www.kurtandersen.com/about))

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I think going from Omaha essentially to the east – New York, specifically – made me feel a little bit like a permanent outsider
-Who are you?
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I’m mostly persuaded that, at least in my lifetime, that religious faith has done more harm than good
-What do you believe?
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I would say any time I come across, either in person or in reading about, an act of courage
-What inspires you?
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it is only through the writing that I get any clarity in my own mind
-How do you write?
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re-writing is everything
-Big Think Interview With Kurt Andersen
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I read pretty much every word on Iraq and the Middle East just to depress myself, I suppose
-Where are we?
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We were softened up as a people to believe what we want to believe
-Will America’s disregard for science be the end of its reign?
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Bobby Kennedy. I mean, his name was everything
-The Rise of RFK Jr

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"Kurt Andersen is America’s voice of reason"

Sarah Vowell

"Fantasyland presents the very best kind of idea—one that, in retrospect, seems obvious, but that took a seer like Kurt Andersen to piece together"

Stephen Dubner

"Kurt Andersen is a dazzling writer and a perceptive student of the many layers of American life"

Tom Brokaw

"Kurt Andersen interrogates the past half century with characteristic intellectual ambition and literary bravado to find out"

Jacob Weisberg

"With this rousing book, Kurt Andersen proves to be the kind of clear-eyed critic an anxious country needs in the midst of a national crisis"

San Francisco Chronicle

"Kurt Andersen has published a big, swinging novel you'll want to check out"

The Washington Post

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