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Kurtz, Irma

Irma Kurtz has been Cosmopolitan’s agony aunt for over 40 years. She was born in New Jersey, grew up in New York and settled to London after travelling around Europe. She has contributed to many national newspapers and can frequently be heard on the radio as a ‘talking head’. she has also worked on several television series, including ‘Mediterranean Tales’, following Mark Twain’s route in his book The Innocents Abroad. Irma has also written three self-help books, two novels and three travel-focused books. Her autobiography, My Life in Agony, was published in 2014.

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The Price of Addle Tree

Irma Kurtz on Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Not many pleasures attach to growing old. And as former pleasures pass away one by one, fewer still emerge, new and unrehearsed. Reading, albeit more slowly and through spectacles, remains a source of knowledge and provides the increasingly rare frisson of sheer delight. Most unexpectedly in my perilously lengthening lifetime, however, arrived the spanking new and rejuvenating joy of rereading.
20140601152539 Anthony Gardner on Irma Kurtz, The Great American Bus Ride

Hound Dogs

Anthony Gardner on Irma Kurtz, The Great American Bus Ride

When I was 18 I travelled around America by Greyhound bus. I still have the Hagstrom folding map I took with me, my gap-year odyssey marked out in black felt-tip pen: west from New York, skirting the Great Lakes; across the vast prairies of Minnesota and North Dakota; over the Rockies to Salt Lake City and San Francisco; back through Arizona, Texas and the Deep South. It was the first great adventure of my life – one that has yet to be surpassed.

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