Design Matters Today with Kurt Andersen

It is Friday again! That means that Design Matters is live at 3 PM ET. My guest today is Kurt Andersen.

Kurt Andersen is the author of the critically acclaimed bestselling novels Heyday and Turn of the Century. Now at work on his third novel, Andersen is also the host of "Studio 360," the Peabody Award-winning public radio program about culture and the arts; a columnist for New York magazine; co-founder of Very Short List; a contributing editor to Vanity Fair; and editor-at-large for Random House.

He was a co-founder and editor of Spy magazine, and editor-in-chief of New York. In 1999 he co-founded Inside.com, an online news service. During the 1990s he was executive producer of prime-time specials for NBC and created pilots for ABC, NBC and NBC News. He is also co-author of "Loose Lips," an off-Broadway revue that had long runs in New York and Los Angeles.

As a columnist for The New Yorker from 1996 to 1999, he wrote regularly about design and architecture. He began his career in journalism at Time, where he was an award-winning writer on politics and criminal justice before serving as the magazine’s architecture and design critic for eight years. He has also contributed to the New York Times Magazine, Metropolis and Architectural Record, among others.

Andersen is a trustee of the Pratt Institute and the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Rhode Island School of Design.

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