The gang has been portrayed in a number of historical novels including Dreamland (2003) by Kevin Baker, The Five Points Concluded (2003) by Rocco Dormarunno, Sweet America: An Immigrants Story (2004) by Steven Knoll and Heyday: A Novel (2007) by Kurt Andersen.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1990, he took at job at Spy magazine, where he worked under Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter.
Abumrad has reported and produced documentaries for a number of local and National Public Radio programs, including On the Media, PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Democracy Now!, and WNYC's "24 Hours at the Edge of Ground Zero".
Andersen lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Anne Kreamer, who is also an author and his two daughters, Kate and Lucy.
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In 1999 he co-founded an online media news web site and biweekly magazine called Inside, which he and his co-founders sold to Primedia; Primedia closed the site in October 2001.
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He also wrote Reset (Random House, 2009), an essay about the causes and aftermath of the Great Recession, and he has contributed to many other books, such as Spark: How Creativity Works (HarperCollins, 2011) and Fields of Vision: The Photographs of John Vachon (Library of Congress, 2010).
After briefly working at the defunct Kurt Andersen-run Inside.com in 1999, Lewitinn was hired as an assistant to Michael Hirschorn at VH1.
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Her brother is radio host and television personality, Kurt Andersen and her sister is political analyst and writer, Kristi Andersen.