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Kurt Andersen

Kurt Andersen
Kurt Andersen is author of Heyday and Turn of the Century and frequently writes for New York and Vanity Fair. He is host and cocreator of the Peabody Award–winning public radio program Studio 360. In 2006, he founded Very Short List, an email service for connoisseurs of culture who would never call themselves “connoisseurs.” He was cofounder of >Spy magazine, and has been a columnist and critic for the New Yorker and Time. Andersen lives with his wife and daughters in Brooklyn.


Kurt Andersen on the Corrosive Politics
of Nostalgia

Of Trumpism, Disunity, and Resistance to Change
August 12, 2020  By Kurt Andersen
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