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author of 'The Mythmakers' Vanity Fair senior editor rhymes with papaya
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This year my debut novel came out in paperback with the most beautiful easter egg of a cover. If you pick up a copy from your favorite local indie it will make a bookseller happy, it will make me happy, and it will make you happyâa win-win-win!
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For
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, I chatted with Mona Awad about 'We Love You, Bunny,' out today.
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Novelist Mona Awad on Her Dark Impulses: âNo Boys Were Axed in the Making of This Bookâ
The author chats with VF about the much-anticipated sequel to her best-selling novel, 'Bunny,' Reddit reader theories, and the horror of the MFA.
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/novelist-mona-awad-on-her-dark-impulses
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Dr. Jen Gunter
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I was interviewed for Vanity Fair about the connection between Paltrow, GOOP and MAHA
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Dr. Jen Gunter Sees a Direct Line Between Goop Culture and MAHA
The California-based gynecologist and âGwynethâ biography source opens up about why sheâs decided to leave the United States.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/dr-jen-gunter-sees-a-direct-line-between-goop-culture-and-maha
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Here's some of the weird stuff going on with AI and literature these days, plus 12 really good books written (almost entirely đ) by humans to kick off your summer reading.
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A Newspaper Published an AI-Generated List Full of Fake Novels. Here, 12 Real Books to Read Instead
Forget AI oopsies; here are some of the best books to kick off your summer reading, from the steamy to the spine-chillingâand each hand-selected by the staff of VF.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/12-real-books-to-read
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Molly Jong-Fast
5 months ago
My HTLYM publishes in two weeks but you can read some of it here in
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Molly Jong-Fast Reflects on Her Motherâs Dementia and the Fleeting Nature of Fame
In a moving excerpt from âHow to Lose Your Mother,â Jong-Fast writes about being raised by larger-than-life feminist icon Erica Jong, and witnessing her heartbreaking decline.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/molly-jong-fast-reflects-on-her-mothers-dementia
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Vanity Fair
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Amid sweeping attacks on the freedom to read, these novels deal with essential questions of what it means to be a human in this world. VFâs picks for 16 books to read this month:
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16 Books To Read This Month
Amid sweeping attacks on the freedom to read, these novels and nonfiction deal with sex and sensuality, racism and artmaking, dreams under fascism, and more essential questions of what it means to be ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/16-books-to-read-this-month
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I spoke with José Andrés, whose World Central Kitchen is using dwindling supplies to make meals in Gaza and whose colleagues were killed by Israeli and Russian attacks, about working through grief.
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JosĂ© AndrĂ©s Lost 18 WCK Workers to the Violence of War. He Still Believes Thereâs Good in the World.
The Michelin-starred chef lost friends and colleagues to Russian and Israeli airstrikes. With his new book, Change the Recipe, he hopes to convince readersâand himselfâto stay hopeful.
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/jose-andres-lost-18-wck-workers-to-the-violence-of-war-he-still-believes-theres-good-in-the-world
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, I wrote about Meta's defense of training its AI on millions of pirated books, including: they didn't read the pirated copies, it would be annoying to license them, and they don't think the books are individually worth anything to them, anyway.
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This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No âEconomic Valueâ
As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the companyâs stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/meta-ai-lawsuit
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oKay
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Thank you
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Mark Zuckerbergâs Former AI Lawyer for Meta Is Now Taking on Elon Musk, DOGE, and Trump
Months after Mark Lemley posted a fiery missive to LinkedIn, he talks to VF about ditching Meta, suing DOGE, and his one regret about his âneo-Naziâ allegation.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/mark-zuckerbergs-former-ai-lawyer-for-meta-is-now-taking-on-elon-musk-doge-and-trump
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Michael Calderone
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"The Fascism Expert at Yale Whoâs Fleeing America"
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talks to Jason Stanley
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The Fascism Expert at Yale Whoâs Fleeing America
Philosophy professor Jason Stanley is leaving the US for Canada, âthe Ukraine of North America,â because he believes Trumpâs America is âpretty far alongâ in the grips of fascism.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america
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"Democracy comes before the price of eggs. But what I think is particularly foolish and naive and stupid is to give up democracy *and* raise the price of eggs."
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The Fascism Expert at Yale Whoâs Fleeing America
Philosophy professor Jason Stanley is leaving the US for Canada, âthe Ukraine of North America,â because he believes Trumpâs America is âpretty far alongâ in the grips of fascism.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america
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A Friday treat: eavesdrop on Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar's Bay Area roadtrip courtesy of
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. âKaveh is team poetry and Iâm team novel, and we were both trying to recruit each other for each otherâs teams, then realized we could play for both.â
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Inside a Book Tour Turned Road Trip With Best Friends and Best-Selling Authors Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar
The authors of the celebrated novels âWandering Starsâ and âMartyr!â are each otherâs valued early readers. âWe both wrote when no one gave a shit that we were writing it,â Akbar tells VF. âItâs fun t...
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/inside-a-book-tour-turned-road-trip-with-tommy-orange-and-kaveh-akbar
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I wrote about someone poisoning their neighbor's treesâbut also about climate change, and the brilliance of oaks, and what it means to live in community together.
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An L.L. Bean Heiress Suspected Neighbors of Poisoning Her Trees. What Happened Next Roiled Camden, Maine
When Lisa Gorman noticed that a grove of her majestic oaks had died, she cast her suspicions on seasonal neighbors who wanted a better view of the harbor. The fight that ensued became a town drama tha...
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/llbean-heiress-poisoned-trees-maine?srsltid=AfmBOorFNAVyo_0sGb6WUwxf2Ek-p46-dgKBm3BvkxOj4k50Gyr0LcvN
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Maggie Coughlan
10 months ago
Of course I picked Ina Garten's memoir (her Outrageous Brownies recipe remains undefeated) for
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's roundup of the best books of 2024.
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21 Best Books of 2024 to Read Right Now
The novels and nonfiction we couldnât stop thinking about this yearâand in a year like this one, thatâs saying something.
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Hate picking favorites. Love proselytizing about good books. The latter impulse won. Here are 21 of the
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staff's most beloved 2024 reads.
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21 Best Books of 2024 to Read Right Now
The novels and nonfiction we couldnât stop thinking about this yearâand in a year like this one, thatâs saying something.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/best-books-2024
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Cher's memoir is, in big part, a love letter to (and mourning song for) reproductive rights, and the doctors who perform essential care. I wrote about it for
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Cher Reveals She Made a Difficult âChoiceâ During a Pregnancy, In Her New Memoir
Writing about miscarriages, abortions, and giving birth, the Goddess of Pop juxtaposes her own health history against the harrowing landscape of her motherâs experiences.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/cher-memoir-miscarriage-abortion
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Joe Hagan
10 months ago
These Trump cabinet picks are really crystalizing how much I love artists, intellectuals, feminists, academics, librarians, musicians, writers, poets, people who wear glasses, and basically anybody who has ever held, read or enjoyed a book.
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This year my debut novel came out in paperback with the most beautiful easter egg of a cover. If you pick up a copy from your favorite local indie it will make a bookseller happy, it will make me happy, and it will make you happyâa win-win-win!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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11 months ago
was asked by Vanity Fair what art has helped with the past week & I talked about the work of Lee Bul, a groundbreaking Korean artist with a 1989 performance piece that involved hanging nude from the rafters while talking about her experience of abortion
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I wrote about "your body, my choice," the MAGA penis obsession, and Aristophanes' Lysistrata.
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MAGA Has a Penis Obsession. 4B Feminism Is a Logical Response
Welcome to our phallocracy. Sure, the election was about the economy, but it was also about misogyny (among other things).
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/4b-feminism-is-a-logical-response-to-magas-penis-obsession
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VF's on the app! I'm on the app! I chatted with Dev Patel for the VF Hollywood Issue! Delight all around!
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