Hamptons Status Symbols in Coronatimes; Ghislaine’s Haunting Gift to Jeffrey; Monica Lewinsky on Gallows Humor

Plus: Ta-Nehisi Coates to Guest-Edit V.F. View in your browser | Update your preferences A SPECIAL EDITION OF COCKTAIL HOUR August 6, 2020 HAMPTONS PROBLEMS Beach Bouncers and Botox House Calls Are the New Summer Status Symbols By Stephanie Krikorian The East End is bustling, pandemic be damned, with waits for hot restaurants, Tracy Anderson workouts, and Botox appointments. The überwealthy are even snagging second or third homes for COVID-free "compounding." Read More If someone forwarded you this email, sign up for "Cocktail Hour" here. SURVIVAL MECHANISMS Why Gallows Humor Might Just Rescue This Year of WTFs By Monica Lewinsky In this annus horribilis, don't forget to laugh. It can't make things worse, and just might make you feel better. Read More IN HER WORDS "Not the Ending I Imagined": Malala on Graduating From Oxford, Virtually By Malala Yousafzai With senior-year socializing cut short, the Nobel Peace Prize–winning activist has no choice but to get on with changing the world. Read More QUARANTINE HOBBIES “Open window-swap.com and then just go back to what you were doing before. You, if you're like me, won't want to. There's a pull to these places that's hard to describe.” — Kenzie Bryant on finding comfort in strangers' vistas Read More 2020 ELECTION Will the Trump–Biden Debates Even Happen? By Tom Kludt The campaigns are at loggerheads ahead of next month's first debate—as Team Trump proposes moderators. Bartiromo? Hewitt? Muir? Still, media insiders are optimistic. "Huge TV audiences," said one. Trump's "going to skip that?" Read More TWISTED FRIENDSHIP Ghislaine Maxwell's Haunting 40th Birthday Present to Jeffrey Epstein By Julie Miller Maxwell's former friend Christopher Mason recalls the gift—and Epstein's strange birthday party—in Lifetime's new docuseries Surviving Jeffrey Epstein. Read More HOT WHEELS How to Ride Your Bike in Style By Samantha Gasmer Thirteen items to make the most of your time outdoors. Read More CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD Jennifer Lopez, Diana Ross, and More Stars as Only Firooz Zahedi Could Capture Them By Sarah Shoen The photographer is releasing a new book of portraits, Look at Me, "a very stylized look back at my life." Read More ICYMI Ta-Nehisi Coates Will Guest-Edit the September Issue of Vanity Fair By Vanity Fair Eve L. Ewing, Bomani Jones, Ava DuVernay, Josie Duffy Rice, Jesmyn Ward, and others will contribute to the special issue. Read More This e-mail was sent to you byVANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address,vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View ourPrivacy PolicyUnsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020.One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.