IRIS BAHR IN CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR KURT ANDERSEN
Join best-selling author Kurt Andersen, and award-winning actor, author, comic and founder of Neurotica Fest, Iris Bahr, (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Hacks) as they performs excerpts from Kurt's hit new novel, THE BREAKUP.
“ Clever, nuanced, and a joy.”
—Jake Tapper
“This remarkable book contains multitudes. With wide-ranging
intelligence and his trademark wit, Kurt Andersen has written an epic
elegy for a country strained past its breaking point.”
–– Tom
Perrotta
"Thank you, universe, for Kurt Andersen and this page-turner.”
—Gary
Shteyngart
“Kurt Andersen is the most brilliant social novelist of our time, in the
tradition of Tom Wolfe and Don DeLillo, but even funnier and deeper.
With a light touch and instinct for telling details, he mixes
pitch-perfect satire with profound insights.”
—Walter Isaacson
“In this adventurous new novel, Kurt Andersen, an expert conjurer of the
past and present, now transports us into a mesmerizing near future, at
once surreal and bizarrely plausible. The Breakup is a sympathetic look
at what happens to people when the personal becomes relentlessly
political, told with wit, fizz, and that rare ability to articulate big
ideas that haven't yet been articulated.”
—Jennifer Senior
“Asher and Natalie, a couple as recognizable and as sympathetic as any
I’ve encountered in a long time, are not creatures from the future;
they’re all of us trying to live through that future, confronting the
great question Robert Frost posed: What to make of a diminished thing?
And as Garry Shandling would say, No flipping—the ending is pure
Hitchcock.”
—Caitlin Flanagan
“A harrowing and profound social satire set in the near future, rich in
characters and insight, sometimes painful, often funny, beautifully
written.”
—Anne Lamott
"A rich, incisive study of manners and morals in the American 21st
century. Pointed, funny and unnerving, The Breakup conveys a sense of
inevitability."
—Susanna Moore
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Storytelling
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$10.00 + $2.50 fee - $15.00 + $2.50 fee -
September 11, 2026 -
50 minutes -
Under St Marks -
94 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009
