Kurt Andersen on Channeling President Trump

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Andersen talks about "You Can't Spell America Without Me"; Liza Mundy discusses “Code Girls”; and Maria Russo on the season's children’s books.

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0:00.0	How do you write a memoir by President Trump when you are not President Trump?
0:10.2	Kurt Anderson joins us to talk about his faux memoir.
0:13.6	You can't smell America without me.
0:15.5	Co-ridden with Alec Baldwin.
0:17.9	Who are some of the key codebreakers of World War II?
0:21.0	Liza Mundi will be here to talk about her book, Code Girls.
0:25.0	Our children's books editor, Maria Russo, will talk about this falls best book for kids
0:29.4	and the winners of our 65th Best Illustrated Book Awards.
0:33.9	Alexander Alta will give us an update from the literary world,
0:36.9	plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.
0:40.2	This is Inside the Narrow Times Book Review.
0:42.0	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:48.3	Kurt Anderson joins us now.
0:49.9	He is the co-author of a book with Alec Baldwin that is ostensibly written by Donald J. Trump.
0:57.9	I'm going to give the full title.
0:59.1	It's called You Can't Spell America Without Me.
1:02.2	The really tremendous inside story of my fantastic first-year as President by Donald J. Trump,
1:09.5	a so-called parody by Alec Baldwin and Kurt Anderson.
1:13.4	All right, that is a mouthful, but I guess appropriately so.
1:16.2	Kurt, thanks for being here.
1:17.8	My pleasure.
1:18.6	Okay, how did this project come about?
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