There’s no one who understands where America has been and where it’s going better than Kurt Andersen: co-creator of Spy and longtime Trump satirizer; editor of New York magazine in the ‘90s; and Zeitgeist conversant host of the Peabody Award-winning Studio 360. Wordfesters know him as the author of Fantasyland and Evil Geniuses. He’s braved the Canada-U.S. border just for us, to talk about his new novel, The Breakup, which posits an AI-suffused America in 2045 and follows the fault lines of a long-married couple, split not just between the Free America Republic and a much reduced United States, but from each other. What differences are irreconcilable, Andersen asks, and when is something worth saving?
Lively Conversation
Pop-Up Bookstore
Book Signing
Libations Bar
60 minutes. No intermission.
Lively Conversation
Pop-Up Bookstore
Book Signing
Libations Bar
60 minutes. No intermission.
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