03/08/07
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By Doree Shafrir

Comment by Looker: Yeah, when I think of the Greatest Heterosexual Men of All Time, I immediately think of Tom Cruise. How the... more » | Other threads

  • remainders

    Remainders: Jenna Bush, Do-Gooder

  • Jenna Bush decides to let the world know how to save the children. [USA Today] More »
    • 03/06/07
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    By Doree Shafrir

    Comment by Seeräuber Jenny: Even a minutiae maven like myself (and I believe that "minutiae" is the only correct plural), can't get too worked... more » | Other threads

  • kurt andersen

    Janet Maslin Puts The Hurt On Kurt Andersen

    At the Times, a bit of the editorial judgment is rendered in advance of a book review based on which critic does the actual reviewing. If Michiko Kakutani takes on your novel, it's a clear signal that it's an Important Literary Effort, worthy of deep analysis and significant enough to merit a serious limning. And sometimes reviews are assigned to Janet Maslin. This was the case for Spy founder and New York mag columnist Kurt Andersen for Heyday, his new historical romp (Stevedores! Daguerreotypists! Fishmongers!). On the plus side, she grades on a much looser curve than Kakutani. So, how'd it do? More »
    03/05/07
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    By abalk2

    Comment by raincoaster: @TedSez: you mean Caleb Carr...remember him? No? Nobody? Quite. more » | Other threads

  • kurt andersen

    Meeting Kurt Andersen At The Waverly Inn

    "I don't think anyone over 22 has that ambition," Kurt Andersen said last night, when asked if he had been trying to write the Great American Novel. One might be forgiven for thinking he had set out to do so; his new historical novel, Heyday, is 640 pages long! And it's full of Great American Novel-isms: a transcontinental journey, a group of young people (including a virtuous prostitute), the mid-19th century, gold mining, California, New York... yes, it's all there. Last evening dozens of Andersen's close friends and associates came out to Graydon Carter's appropriately 19th-century Waverly Inn to f te him and his book. More »
    03/01/07
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    By Doree Shafrir

    Comment by Seeräuber Jenny: @superba: I had the same reaction as you, but did find in one dico a secondary meaning "bent or arched"... more » | Other threads

  • internet

    Esquire, Kurt Andersen: Everything Old On Internet New Again

    It's Renovation Day on the web! Esquire, that bastion of middlebrow entertainment for men who need at least three beers before they'll go queer, has a shiny new site that appears to offer plenty of current content along with archives. Also, you get up-to-the-moment assessment of Britney Spears from noted Spears expert Chuck Klosterman; distressingly, it's actually pretty good. At the other end of the ledger, Kurt Andersen, who once edited something called, hmm, Sly? No wait, Spy, maybe? Anyway, he's blogging! More »
    02/21/07
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    By abalk2

    Comment by Bonehead: so i go to check out esquire.com, looks pretty good, so i figure i'll sign up for the email newsletter... more » | Other threads

  • david carr

    Kurt Andersen Loves Him Some David Carr

    [David] Carr (whom I employed six years ago at Inside.com) is a quirky, entertaining, singular writer. I was pleasantly surprised when the paper of record hired and then promoted him to media columnist. But I was flabbergasted when they gave him a movie-awards blog (the Carpetbagger) and—the Times!—let him invent a weekly Web-video spot as a goofy man-on-the-street and celebrity-on-the-red-carpet interviewer. He's produced three dozen so far. There's nothing else like them in mainstream media. He is preternaturally perfect for the Web—a friendly, wisecracking 50-year-old character with a Minnesota rasp, the very opposite of self-serious.
    That's Kurt Andersen, praising the NYT's David Carr to the heavens in this week's New York. Hoepfully, David will ask some of those entertaining, singular questions for which he's so well-regarded a couple weeks from now when he interviews Kurt in a very special Times Talk! More »
    02/19/07
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    By abalk2

    Comment by raincoaster: preternaturally perfect for the Web--a friendly, wisecracking 50-year-old character with a Minnesota rasp Oh well, so much for us, eh? Back... more » | Other threads

  • new york magazine

    Kurt Andersen's Buttsex Tease

    We were ever so intrigued by New York's take on the ol' 'increasing popularity of anal sex' trend piece ("[27-year-old 'Jim'] agrees that it seems to be on the rise among his friends but wonders whether it's 'really a cultural shift or just something we ease into semi-contemporaneously as we age, like marriage or buying real estate or listening to jazz rap.'"). Our butts were hungry for more after we finished reading it, so we were excited to see Kurt Andersen picking up the theme in his Imperial City column, entitled "How The Middle Class is Getting Screwed." Then we clicked, and were disappointed. More »
    01/02/07
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    By Emily Gould

    Comment by ellagood: just got my issue on the mail (conspicuously late, but fine) and i notice you guys photoshopped in that slap... more » | Other threads