Kurt Andersen is the author of Heyday and Turn of the Century and frequently writes for New York Magazine and Vanity Fair. He is the host and co-creator 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 the 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. Website: kurtandersen.com. Twitter: @KBAndersen.

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Reviews of Fantasyland:

• “Fake news. Post-truth. Alternative facts. For Andersen, these are not momentary perversions but habits baked into our DNA” – In the New York Times
• “There’s the continuing war on the elites. There’s a far right that has gained an unprecedented media clout. There’s the war on science” – In the Globe & Mail

Interviews:

• “I mean, no book is fun — every book is horrible to write — but it was fun, as you say” – In the LA Review of Books
• Video on MSNBC