Q&As, Profiles, Interviews
For book-specific reviews and press, please visit each book's page below:
Print Is Dead (Long Live Print!) Podcast conversation about starting and running SPY magazine, and magazines in general, April 2022
Columbia Journalism Review, roundtable discussion of journalists who've started media businesses
Sidney Blumenthal, London Review of Books, on Kurt's imaginary 1989 Trump novel , February 2017
With All Due Respect, MSNBC’s & Bloomberg, about Trump, December 2016
Omaha World-Herald, about Spy (and Trump), October 2016
The Daily Beast, about Esquire‘s “pop-up” Spy (and Trump), October 2016
Recode, about my work (and Trump), October 2016
The Takeaway, about the merger of entertainment and politics have merged (and Spy and Trump), September 2016
Morning Joe, about politics (and Trump), January, March, another March and September 2016
The Last Word, about politics (and Trump), April, August and another August and December 2016
Slate, discussion of Willa Cather’s My Antonia, June 2016
NPR Morning Edition, about Donald Trump, March 2016
The New York Times, about Kurt's office, February 2016
Longform, Q&A, November 2015
Person Place Thing, Q&A, September 2015
Salon, about Donald Trump, September 2015
Chicago Sun-Times, about Donald Trump, August 2015
20×200, five pictures I like, Q&A about art in general, July 2015
The Art of the Interview, January 2015Now With Alex Wagner, about politics, November 2014 and July 2013
Carnegie Council, conversation on ethics in professional life, October 2013
Diners, magazine (Colombia), on the impacts of technology, October 2013
Brooklyn Magazine, about the writing life in a digital age, January 2013Greater Boston, WGBH, about our cultural ice age, October 2012
The L Magazine, about Kings County, June 2012
Brooklyn Based, about Kings County, June 2012Page by Page, Aspen Public Radio, December 2011
Charlie Rose, December 2011
TechCrunch: Keen On, part 2, December 2011
TechCrunch: Keen On, part 1, December 2011
PBS’ Need to Know: Fixing Government, December 2011
It’s Called “The Technik of Flotzy”, April 2011Cazenovia Republican, September 2010
The Desk, September 2010
Brooklyn Book Festival, September 2010
PopTech, July 2010
Fortune, February 2010
Mr. Media, February 2010
Los Angeles Times, March 2009
American Management Association, October 2009
The Onion, September 2009
Bloomberg, September 2009
Charlie Rose, August 2009
The Colbert Report, August 2009
Bloggingheads.tv, August 2009
Change Observer, August 2009
Mediaite, August 2009
Morning Joe, July 2009
Today show, July 2009
Los Angeles Times, April 2009
LA Weekly, March 2009Huffington Post, August 2008
Plum TV, July 2008
Charlie Rose, May 2008
Design Matters, February 2008
Mr NYC, January 2008
Omaha World-Herald, November 2007
Gateway, November 2007
Big Think, July 2007 (video interviews about the history of transformative technology, the future of journalism, cultural journalism, Spy magazine, impact on audiences, writing, writing novels, and creative process)
Metropolis, April 2006
MarketWatch, January 2006
New York Times Magazine, July 2005
Associated Press, June 2004
New York Sun, June 2004
Variety, March 2004
Minneapolis Star-Tribune, May 2003