Get published in Vanity Fair

“In many ways, my 2014 essay, “Shame and Survival,” was a social experiment. Vanity Fair and its then editor, Graydon Carter, could have been lambasted for giving someone from a 15-year-old news story, well, 15 more minutes. And not just in a splashy interview, but in a first-person essay in which I allowed myself to be transparent—and unblinking. [...] That one essay, where someone took a chance on me, helped set my life on a different course.”

“She told me she was in New York to discuss becoming editor of Vanity Fair. She told me to keep a journal of the trial day by day and to come and see her when the trial was over. I did. That journal became the basis for the first article I wrote for Vanity Fair. It was called “Justice.” She said to me, “Next week, when this issue hits the stand, every magazine in New York is going to be after you, but you’re mine.” I hadn’t been wanted for a long time. I couldn’t sign that contract with Vanity Fair quick enough. I was 59 at the time. As the Gypsy woman had predicted, this became the best and most interesting period of my life. I knew from the first moment I walked in the door of the Vanity Fair offices in the old Condé Nast building, at 350 Madison Avenue, that at long last I had found the place I was supposed to be.”