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Diddy, Love, and Writing The Near-Present

Diddy, Love, and Writing The Near-Present

What I’ve been doing on my summer vacation + writing about pop culture for pop-culture mags and the meaning of the “near-present.”

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In one of the coolest “What I Did Over Summer Break” stories I will be able to tell, I wrote the cover story for the September 2021 issue of Vanity Fair. The issue reflects on the turn of the 21st century—in particular, its lessons for our next 20 years. You can read the story online now and in print when the issue hits newsstands (or whatever we call t…

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