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Kurt Andersen

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Born
in Omaha, The United States
August 22

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Fiction, Nonfiction, Humor and Comedy

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July 2011


Kurt Andersen is the author of the novels Turn of the Century, Heyday, and True Believers, and and, with Alec Baldwin of You Can't Spell America Without Me. His non-fiction books include Fantasyland, Reset and The Real Thing.

He is also host of the Peabody Award-winning weekly public radio program Studio 360,.

Previously, Kurt was a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine Spy, editor-in-chief of New York magazine, a columnist for New York, staff writer at The New Yorker, and design and architecture critic for Time. ...more

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Hello Kurt! I really enjoyed your persuasive article in "The Atlantic" and I am looking forward to reading your book! Are you currently on a book tour and do you plan to come out west?
Kurt Andersen Glad you liked the excerpt from in the Atlantic and hope you enjoy the book. I'm still touring some and talking about Fantasyland in the media -- but …moreGlad you liked the excerpt from in the Atlantic and hope you enjoy the book. I'm still touring some and talking about Fantasyland in the media -- but no more western stops on the schedule currently.(less)
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“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.”
― Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
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“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”
― Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
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“We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.” —MARK TWAIN, “Corn-Pone Opinions” (1901)”
― Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
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