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The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her 20s who arrives in New York City with a dream. Summoned from London in hopes that she can save Condé Nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is immediately plunged into the maelstrom of the competitive New York media world and the backstabbing rivalries at the court of the planet's slickest, most glamour-focused magazine company.

Generally considered to be his masterpiece, Vanity Fair is Thackeray's resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero", it traces the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women: the scheming opportunist Becky Sharp, one of literature's most resourceful, engaging, and amoral heroines, and her foil, the faithful, naive Amelia Sedley.

When Ann Woodward shot her husband, banking heir Billy Woodward, in the middle of the night in 1955, her life changed forever. Though she claimed she thought he was a prowler, few believed the woman who had risen from charismatic showgirl to popular socialite. Everyone had something to say about the scorching scandal afflicting one of the most rich and famous families of New York City, but no one was more obsessed with the tale than Truman Capote.

L'allure des films - Vanity Fair x Chanel Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Dans cette série de podcasts pour Vanity Fair, la journaliste et autrice Sophie Rosemont échange avec des artistes féminines autour de leurs parcours, leurs peurs, leurs désirs et leur engagement. Chacune choisit aussi de lire un texte qui les touche, réagit aux mots des autres, affirme son discours et sa personnalité. Ici, on écoute enfin les filles, pour de vrai, pas pour la pose. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

À l'occasion du trentenaire de la mort de Serge Gainsbourg, « Vanity Fair » lui consacre un podcast en cinq épisodes. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell." That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as "Downtown" became a category of art and life unto itself, he embarked upon his sentimental education, seventies New York style.