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Kurt Andersen is a writer. His most recent books, both Times bestsellers, are Evil Geniuses (2020), about the rich right’s hijacking of the U.S. political economy since the 1970s, and Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire (2017), his history of Americans’ defining weakness for make-beleive. In addition, he’s the author of four critically acclaimed bestselling novels — You Can’t Spell America Without Me (2017), True Believers (2012), Heyday (2007) and Turn of the Century (1999). Andersen also writes for television, most recently Command Z (2023) with Steven Soderbergh. He contributes regularly to The Atlantic and The New York Times. He was co-creator and host for 20 years of the Peabody Award-winning weekly public radio show Studio 360; a columnist and critic for The New Yorker, New York and Time; editor-in-chief of New York; and co-founding editor of the transformative Spy magazine.
Jennifer Senior is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, the 2022 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and the 2024 National Magazine Award for Columns & Essays. Before joining The Atlantic in 2021, she spent five years at The New York Times, first as a daily book critic and then as an op-ed columnist; before that, she spent 18 years at New York magazine, writing profiles and cover stories about politics, social science, and mental health. Her long-form journalism has earned her two Front Page awards, a GLAAD Media Award, and appearances in both The Best American Political Writing and The Best American Nature and Science Writing. She is also the author of On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory and All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, which spent eight weeks on the New York Times best-seller list; has been translated into 12 languages; and was named one of Slate’s top 10 books of 2014.