In 2017, he published two books, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, which explains American society's peculiar susceptibility to falsehoods and illusions (Random House, .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}ISBN 978-1-4000-6721-3), and with Alec Baldwin You Can't Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year As President (Penguin, ISBN 978-0-5255-2199-0), a parody Trump memoir. Glad you liked the excerpt from in the Atlantic and hope you enjoy the book. Kurt Andersen (born August 22, 1954) is an American writer and host of the erstwhile Peabody-winning public radio program Studio 360, a production of Public Radio International, Slate, and WNYC.[1][2]. Along with Carter and George Kalogerakis he assembled a history and greatest-hits anthology of Spy called Spy: The Funny Years, published in 2006 by Miramax Books.

Andersen lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, the author Anne Kreamer. Are you currently on a book tour and do you plan to come out west? But there may be another way forward in post-Trump America, says author Kurt Andersen. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.

Andersen is the author of three novels, including Turn of the Century (Random House, 1999), which was a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and the New York Times bestseller Heyday (Random House, 2007), which won the Langum Prize for the best American historical fiction of 2007.

Excerpts from Fantasyland appeared as a cover story in The Atlantic,[9][10] and in Slate.

In 1996, Bill Reilly fired Andersen after two and a half years from his position as editor-in-chief at New York, citing the publication's financial results. For the German general, see, Essays, reporting and other contributions, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History, "Slate will take over co-producer role with 'Studio 360, "1970 Westside High School YEARBOOK - Omaha, NE", "How Donald Trump Became the Short-Fingered Vulgarian", "Bill Reilly, Magazine Publishing Executive, Dies at 70", "When a Magazine Is Too Brash for the Bottom Line", "Fake News: It's as American as George Washington's Cherry Tree", "Best Sellers - September 24, 2017 - The New York Times", be both in categories to be diffused and in their subcategories, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Andersen&oldid=985673027, 20th-century American non-fiction writers, 21st-century American non-fiction writers, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 27 October 2020, at 08:03. This week on Inside the Hive, author Kurt Andersen joins Joe Hagan to discuss his new book, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History, which is both the story of how the Republican Party spent the last 50 years reengineering the economy to favor big business at the expense of the working class, and also a crucial primer for the 2020 election. His non-fiction books include Fantasyland, Reset and The Real Thing. See if your friends have read any of Kurt Andersen's books. Error rating book.

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[4] He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he edited the Harvard Lampoon. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20) and Your California Privacy Rights. [7] Andersen attributed the firing to his refusal to kill a story about a rivalry between investment bankers Felix Rohatyn and Steven Rattner that had upset Henry Kravis, the principal of the publishing firm's ownership group.[8]. [5] In 1986 with E. Graydon Carter he co-founded Spy magazine, which they sold in 1991; it continued publishing until 1998. I'm still touring some and talking about Fantasyland in the media -- but no more western stops on the schedule currently. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast.

I really enjoyed your persuasive article in "The Atlantic" and I am looking forward to reading your book! Sign up for our daily Hive newsletter and never miss a story. Hello Kurt! The plan was long in the making, a counterstrike against the 1960s, and it was all too successful. From 2001 to 2004 he served as a senior creative consultant to Barry Diller's Universal Television, and from 2003 to 2005 as editorial director of Colors magazine. And don’t forget to subscribe. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, “mix epic individualism with extreme religion; mix show business with everything else; let all that steep and simmer for a few centuries; run it through the anything-goes 1960s and the Internet age; the result is the America we inhabit today, where reality and fantasy are weirdly and dangerously blurred and commingled.”, “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”, “The disagreements dividing Protestants from Catholics were about the internal consistency of the magical rules within their common fantasy scheme.”. Glad you liked the excerpt from in the Atlantic and hope you enjoy the book. We’d love your help. It’s looking like 1980 again, a crossroads when Ronald Reagan helped reengineer the economy and steer America right. Looking for more?

More recently, he co-founded the email cultural curation service Very Short List and was a guest op-ed columnist for The New York Times and editor-at-large for Random House. He is also host of the Peabody Award … Random House published his third novel, True Believers, in the summer of 2012, and it was named one of the best novels of that year by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Washington Post. Andersen has also published a book of humorous essays, The Real Thing (Doubleday, 1980; Holt, 1982; Bison Press, 2008), about "quintessentialism", and 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. He was also the architecture and design critic for Time for nine years.

Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Andersen was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Westside High School.