Kurt Andersen and Nick Hornby look at how youth is no longer wasted on the young.
Nick Hornby is the author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How to be Good, and A Long Way Down. He also edited the collection of short stories Speaking With the Angel. In 1999, he was awarded the E.M.Forster award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in North London.
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