Spy's Kurt Andersen: Snarkiness 'Rampaging Through The Culture'
Kurt Andersen, via Brett Sokol‘s Ocean Drive profile of the legendary, snark-setting Spy magazine, which gets the anthology treatment in Spy: The Funny Years:
So in popularizing the all-irony-all-the-time approach, did Spy create a snarky Frankenstein monster?
“A father has many children,” Andersen replies dryly, “and he doesn’t necessarily want to take credit for all of them. There’s stuff in the snark-o-maniacal present that maybe we had some small measure of responsibility for. But you’d rather look away as you see it rampaging through the culture.”
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