Kurt Andersen Quote
IN 1967 YOUNG Tom Stoppard had his breakthrough hit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a brilliant play about actors playing characters playing actors playing characters, and the amusing, confusing jumble of fiction and reality. Stoppard knew he was onto something new and important. I have a feeling, he said at the time, that almost everybody today is more trying to match himself up with an external image he has of himself, almost as if he’s seen himself on a screen.
Kurt Andersen
IN 1967 YOUNG Tom Stoppard had his breakthrough hit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a brilliant play about actors playing characters playing actors playing characters, and the amusing, confusing jumble of fiction and reality. Stoppard knew he was onto something new and important. I have a feeling, he said at the time, that almost everybody today is more trying to match himself up with an external image he has of himself, almost as if he’s seen himself on a screen.
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He was also a co-founder of Spy magazine, as well as co-creator and for its 20-year run host of the weekly Peabody Award-winning public radio program and podcast Studio 360.