| MATTHEW LYNCH,
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One of the perks of working in a newsroom is witnessing the predictive powers of your colleagues. Vanity Fair writers like Joe Hagan and Katherine Eban have been way out in front of the potential for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to wreak havoc atop our national health apparatus. (Seriously: Read Eban's latest, on RFK Jr. ally Calley Means.) But even knowing Kennedy's extensive biography and network, yesterday's mass purge of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel was still jarring in its blunt force. As Bess Levin notes today, it is "a decision that should inspire exactly zero confidence, given that the health and human services secretary is himself a notorious anti-vaxxer who has falsely claimed vaccines cause autism and whose vaccine disinformation campaign has been linked to a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people." One upshot: It's nice to know one can still be shocked at this point.
Elsewhere today: Literary bad boy James Frey's new novel about sex and death in Connecticut; private equity—still pretty soulless and soul-crushing; and judgment day in the "orgasmic meditation" forced-labor trial. More tomorrow! |
If James Frey's road has been a rocky one, at least the bumps were diamonds. It's been two decades since he got an Oprah dressing down when it turned out he'd fabricated parts of his mega-best-selling memoir, A Million Little Pieces, and the irony of readers sifting for facts in his new novel isn't lost on Frey: "If I'm published as memoir or nonfiction, everybody goes through it and tries to figure out what's not true," he says now. "If I publish it as fiction, everybody goes through it and tries to figure out what is." (Parsing Frey's truths seems to be a sport at parties in New Canaan, Connecticut, at least.)
Senior editor Keziah Weir talks to the author about his response to criticism, using ChatGPT, and his money-drenched sex-romp-murder-mystery, Next to Heaven. |
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Kennedy—whose brain, it cannot be stated enough, was partially eaten by a worm—announced the move in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. |
In the next installment of VF's Reunited series, the former costars—who haven't seen each other in at least five years—reveal their fondest memories from the set of FNL and whether they'll show up in the upcoming reboot. |
The president's deployment of troops to LA and parading of tanks in DC look like attempts to appear in control even as his administration spirals. |
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In the canon of spectacular resignations, Megan Greenwell's is up there. On her last day as editor in chief of the beloved sports blog Deadspin, Greenwell published a blistering essay on the site about her soon-to-be former bosses at the private-equity firm Great Hill Partners. "A metastasizing swath of media is controlled by private-equity vultures and capricious billionaires and other people who genuinely believe that they are rich because they are smart and that they are smart because they are rich, and that anyone less rich is by definition less smart."
Greenwell spoke to VF's Issie Lapowsky about who gets rich in private-equity takeovers, who gets hurt, and why no one in Washington seems willing to do much about it. |
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