Olivia Nuzzi Returns With ‘American Canto’

Read the exclusive excerpt.

View in your browser | Update your preferences World on Fire BY OLIVIA NUZZI As Vanity Fair West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi writes about Hollywood, "The paradox is that the place in America where people migrate when they wish to become known is in fact an ideal place to disappear." She knows firsthand. A political reporter who was 21 years old when she first interviewed Donald Trump, Olivia exiled herself to Malibu last year after a national scandal detonated, leaving no part of her life spared from the blast. Olivia's first book, American Canto, is as much a work of poetry as it is boldly contemporary nonfiction, a reckoning that stares down the nation's soul as well as her own. Today, she shares the exclusive excerpt with our readers. —Mark Guiducci, Global Editorial Director READ MORE MORE FROM VANITY FAIR POLITICS BUSINESS HOLLYWOOD STYLE ROYALS CELEBRITY This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY 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 our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2025. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.