Bonfire of Inanities
Date of Review:
Dec.03.2006
Reviewer:
Christopher Buckley
Source:
The New York Times
If a decade is lucky, it gets the magazine it deserves. The 1920s had Harold Ross’s New Yorker; the ’60s, Harold Hayes’s Esquire. The 1980s were perhaps luckier than they deserved: Tina Brown’s remake of Vanity Fair and then, in October 1986, a deliciously vicious newsstand cherry bomb calling itself Spy,
Link to Full Review:
Spy: The Funny Years
About Kurt
Kurt Andersen is author of the critically acclaimed bestselling novels Turn of the Century, (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year) and Heyday. In addition, he is host and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning public radio show Studio 360, writes a...
Causes Kurt Andersen Supports
1. Conservation International
2. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
3. Pratt Institute.




