We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in political writing.
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The Passion of Nicki Minaj
Vanessa Grigoriadis meets the world’s biggest female rap superstar. (Love the ending to this one.)
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Everybody Sucks
Vanessa Grigoriadis’s 2007 feature on Gawker Media, and “the rage of the creative underclass.”
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction
We Are All Compromised: The Access Game Isn’t Dead Yet
News organizations, credibility, and who gets the exclusive interview.
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Tempest In a Test Tube
Vanessa Grigoriadis on the complicated, high profile custody battle between actor Jason Patric and his ex-girlfriend Danielle Schreiber.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
'The Most Stoned Kids on the Most Stoned Campus on Earth'
Above photo: Not Moppy and Molly *** What exactly did 4/20 look like on a college campus a decade ago? In 2004’s “The Fully Baked Adventures of Moppy and Molly,” published in Rolling Stone (pdf), Vanessa Grigoriadis profiled a young couple celebrating at UC Santa Cruz: The first 4:20 for Molly and Moppy came at 4:20 A.M.—they […]
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Reading List: The Political Mistress
From Monica to the D.C. Madam, some of my all-time favorite stories on politics, sex and power: 1. ‘The Gary Hart Story: How It Happened,’ by Jim McGee, Tom Fiedler and James Savage (The Miami Herald, May 10, 1987) and ‘The Gary Hart Story: Part Two’ Gary Hart was frontrunner for the 1988 Democratic presidential […]
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Reading List: The Political Mistress
From Monica to the D.C. Madam, some of my all-time favorite stories on politics, sex and power: 1. ‘The Gary Hart Story: How It Happened,’ by Jim McGee, Tom Fiedler and James Savage (The Miami Herald, May 10, 1987) and ‘The Gary Hart Story: Part Two’ Gary Hart was frontrunner for the 1988 Democratic presidential […]
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
A Brief History of ‘It’ Girls
“It isn’t beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just ‘It’.” —Rudyard Kipling 1. “Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Clara Bow, ‘It’ Girl,” (Anne Helen Petersen, The Hairpin, May 2011) Clara Bow was the original It girl, so much so that her 1927 film, titled—what else?—“It,” more or less defined the phenomenon. This piece, from Petersen’s […]
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Interview: Vanessa Grigoriadis and the Art of the Celebrity Profile
The whole Justin Bieber thing is a complex, bizarre incident. First of all, I was totally into Justin Bieber in a way that was really unappealing to anyone who knows me as a woman in my thirties. I was constantly going, “Omigod look at this video; he’s so cute! Come see how cute he is!” […]
