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  Pete Davidson Really Looks Up to Leonardo DiCaprio

  Vanity Fair - Dan Adler

  Pete Davidson is on the cover of Paper in a Ken Doll get-up. Tommy Dorfman shot the photos and wrote the story, in which they describe how the concept emerged: Davidson “told me he slept in a car bed as a kid and I saw it immediately: this Staten Island Ken Doll version of Pete stuck in a Barbie …

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  A New Generation Emerges at the 70th Annual National Book Awards

  Vanity Fair - Erin Vanderhoof

  Normally, you would pity any soul who has to follow John Waters on a stage, but his friend the novelist Edmund White was more than up to the task at the 70th annual National Book Awards on Wednesday. Waters did get the laugh lines of the night—of White, he said, “He’s written so much that My Struggle …

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  “I’m the Shit and You Want This”: How Kim Petras Manifested Her Way to Pop Stardom

  Vanity Fair - Claire Landsbaum

  The boots appeared first: oil slick sleek, black and shiny, and up to mid-thigh with a platform approaching five inches. Then came the rest of Kim Petras’s silhouette, hands on her hips above a flouncy black skirt, waist cinched, ponytail surely as close to God as cosmic rules would allow. The …

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  What Would Ariana Grande and Bernie Sanders Eat Together? The Rich

  Vanity Fair - Kenzie Bryant

  Celebrities and politicians: two types of people fueled by image and charisma and parasocial relationships with screaming fans and haters. They can’t quit each other, and we can’t quit them. So get used to moments like this one over the next year or so: [instagram: …

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  Read Radhika Jones on the Power of the Female Gaze in Magazine Writing

  Vanity Fair - Radhika Jones

  Vanity Fair profiles set themselves apart through the bracing, unflinching nature of the writer’s gaze. This is especially powerful and poignant when the gaze is female. Who could prepare for the scene in Maureen Orth’s 1993 portrait of Tina Turner when Turner pulls the hem of her dress from her legs …

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  Why We Can’t Get Enough of Hoaxes and Cons

  Vanity Fair - Carrie Courogen

  Grifters are having a moment. Charismatic people have been scamming their way to success for centuries, but between 2018’s “summer of scam”—ushered in by the fall of Anna Delvey, the fake heiress who conned her way into the SoHo elite—and the ongoing “grifter season,”—one thing can be certain: In …