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The Vanity Fair Diaries: Power, Wealth, Celebrity, and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a Decade
Tina Brown
3.71 AVERAGE
107 reviews for:
The Vanity Fair Diaries: Power, Wealth, Celebrity, and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a Decade
Tina Brown
3.71 AVERAGE
I enjoyed the second half of this book more. Full of name-dropping and gossip of the 80s, which aside from the brief mentions of Donald Trump, was not particularly relevant.
reflective
slow-paced
how the hell is this so boring?
yes. yes indeed, it DID take me almost 4 years to finish this book.
the end. whew. I MADE it through.
the end. whew. I MADE it through.
If you’re at all interested in publishing, magazine editorial or nyc in the 1980s…run, don’t walk, to pick this one up.
adventurous
informative
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
funny
reflective
fast-paced
wildly fascinating!!! just beyond fun to barrel through all these stories of new york in the 80s through tina brown's british outsider perspective and with the inside view of the people who were the real tastemakers and who had their fingers on the cultural pulse during that decade. tina is really analyzing that history as she's living it, like in this one section talking about a party in 1988 where she proclaims that this party post-stock market crash where wall street types are intermingling with new artistic types is the last night of the 80s, and like, she's right. highly highly recommend seeking out the audiobook as hearing all of this in tina brown's voice is delightful. forever screaming about that lunch where tina is trying to convince warren beatty to do an interview ahead of ISHTAR and he spends the whole lunch calling people on the phone from their table and telling them that he's obsessed with them, and then later when someone comments that warren has "phone disease" aka he's addicted to talking on the phone. again i am screaming. wish i could read the "new yorker diaries" sequel but i guess the epilogue is okay too. the quote "america has no memory" is sticking with me, babyyy
Content Warnings
Moderate: Miscarriage
Minor: Death
adventurous
funny
reflective
fast-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
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I really wanted to like this more, but I found it really hard going. There’s gossip here and no doubt Ms Brown has had a glittering career, but there was just something about it that didn’t click for me. I need to think more about what and why though.
I really wanted to like this more, but I found it really hard going. There’s gossip here and no doubt Ms Brown has had a glittering career, but there was just something about it that didn’t click for me. I need to think more about what and why though.