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New Letters on the Air: Kurt Andersen

Co-founder of the infamous and now defunct Spy magazine, Kurt Andersen is a long-time journalist, who's also written fiction and essays and is now known as the host of the public radio program Studio 360.By New Letters on the Air

Kansas City, MO – In this edition of New Letters on the Air, Andersen discusses the sometimes alternating demands of interviewing creative people and being creative in his own right and reads from his novel "Heyday." He also talks about his earlier novel "Turn of the Century."

Listen here until June 3, 2009.

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