Kurt Andersen Presents Dr. No
We’re incredibly pleased to announce a special event next month (Friday, August 17, 7pm) celebrating the publication of True Believers, the acclaimed new novel by best-selling author, Studio 360 host, and brilliant Film Streams board member Kurt Andersen.
Hailed by Vanity Fair as “a great American novel” and on sale starting today, True Believers is a political thriller and love story set in the 1960s and present day featuring a main character obsessed with James Bond.
In keeping with that theme, Kurt will present a special 50th anniversary screening of the original James Bond film, DR. NO (1962). More info & advance tickets available here. A post-show discussion and book-signing with Kurt will follow the film. Copies of True Believers will be available for purchase at the theater on the night of the event.
A founding member of the Film Streams Advisory Board, Kurt has contributed his talents twice before to events at or in support of the Ruth Sokolof Theater.
In February 2011, he interviewed Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh at the Holland Performing Arts Center for our Feature III fundraiser celebration. (Listen to the interview at Studio 360).
In 2007, Kurt curated one of our cinema’s earliest repertory series, Out There: Nebraska and the Great Plains in the Movies, and launched the series with a special screening and discussion of Terrence Malick’s BADLANDS (1973).
Needless to say, we’re super excited to welcome him back to Omaha and the Ruth Sokolof Theater.
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Praise for Kurt Andersen’s True Believers:
“Andersen’s best book to date…a great American novel.”
—Jon Robin Baitz, Vanity Fair
“Andersen creates spellbinding suspense. This is an ambitious and remarkable novel, wonderfully voiced, about memory, secrets, guilt, and the dangers of certitude. Moreover, it asks essential questions about what it means to be an American and, in a sense, what it means to be America.” —Booklist, starred review
“Kurt Andersen’s best yet. The man is operating on some far-out level that bends time and space to his will. True Believers hits all the right notes and reads like a goddamn dream.” —Gary Shteyngart
“As absorbing as the story is, what makes the novel spellbinding is [the heroine’s] fascinating, layered character — at once brilliant and irreverent, brimming with equal parts intelligence and humor. A master of simple yet tremendously evocative narrative, [Andersen] moves swiftly between well-timed wit, without a hint of smugness.” —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
“This witty, imaginative novel is one part bildungsroman, one part political thriller and one part contemplation on age — and in all aspects wonderful reading.” —Scott Turow
“The public intellectual has become a rare creature in America, but Kurt Andersen has helped keep it from going extinct.” —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
More Info:
More about Kurt Andersen.
Read the first chapter of True Believers.
How a Pronoun Shaped a Novel by Kurt Andersen (Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2012)
Omaha’s Culture Club by Kurt Andersen (New York Times T Magazine, March 25, 2007)
