Topic: Kurt Andersen

THAT COULD do with a trim," said my wife, as I stepped out of the shower. "What?" I asked, following her gaze downwards. "This?". . For a brief...

The Business Case for Reading Novels

I've been a devoted, even fanatical reader of fiction my whole life, but sometimes I feel like I'm wasting time if I spend an evening immersed in...

Smoke and Mirrors.

East, Eavesdroplet, Ticker | Thursday, January 12, 2012 | The Editors. No Comments | Leave A Comment . Architect and set designer David Rockwell...

The Death of Style

Tweet. Kurt Andersen writes in Vanity Fair this month about something that I've noticed too: visual style hasn't changed much over the past 20...

The White-Collar Exodus?

Question: Why do you think talented people are shying away from office jobs? Kurt Andersen: Because they don't look like such a sure thing. But I think there are -- I know that there have been a lot of people over the ...

A Better Kind Of Corporation

The great recession we've been going through will lead to nothing less than a new era in the economy and culture of America, a time of vigorous prudence and ethical self-regulation. That's the prediction of the writer Kurt Andersen in ...
Kurt Andersen worries that America's political conversations are turning into polarized and specious 'echo chambers.'.
Kurt Andersen, the host of "Studio 360" and master of many media (magazines, novels, nonfiction books, film), came by Big Think today to speak about the introduction he wrote to a new edition of a novel by the Nobel Prizewinning author Heinrich ...
Kurt Andersen sees the economic recession as a one-time opportunity for America to " Andersen is the author of the best-selling novels Heyday and Turn of the Century, and is host and co-creator of public radio's Studio 360. Andersen has agreed to ...

Wall Street Learned Nothing

With memories of last fall's financial turmoil already beginning to fade, shareholders are starting to wonder how and when Goldman will redeploy its massive liquidity resources," Just a few days before, Kurt Andersen's essay Reset was published in book form ...