Podcasts about vanity fair diaries

#120: British social climber Tina Brown spent the 1980s in New York City thriving in a decadent world of crass rich people so repulsive that they would make today's gilded age plutocrats blush. Her book The Vanity Fair Diaries (2017) is a horror show of celebrity worship, Kissinger worship and Reagan worship. It's a slavish hagiography that deifies her former corporate masters and their Wall Street cronies.   Also: Introducing Wild World News - a new segment about the insane neoliberal technofeudalist agendas being pimped by politicians and the corporate media on behalf of their billionaire overlords. Or, you could also just call it a monthly wrap-up of the opinions posted to our Twitter/X feed, which can be found @wildworldnews.

The office has long been a fixture in pop culture—but, in 2024, amid the rise of remote work and the resurgence of organized labor, the way we relate to our jobs is in flux. The stories we tell about them are changing, too. On this episode of Critics at Large, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss Adelle Waldman's new novel “Help Wanted,” which delves into the lives of retail workers at a big-box store in upstate New York. They're joined by The New Yorker's Katy Waldman, who lays out the trajectory of the office novel, from tales of postwar alienation to Gen X meditations on selling out and millennial accounts of the gig economy. Then, the hosts consider how this shift is showing up across other mediums. Though some white-collar employees can now comfortably work from home, the office remains an object of fascination. “The workplace is within us,” says Fry. “There will always be shit-talking about co-workers, about bosses—the materials for narrative will always be there.”Read, watch, and listen with the critics:“Working Girl” (1988)“Office Space” (1999)“The West Wing” (1999-2006)“Help Wanted,” by Adelle Waldman“The Pale King,” by David Foster Wallace“Personal Days,” by Ed Park“Then We Came to the End,” by Joshua Ferris“The New Me,” by Halle Butler“The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.,” by Adelle Waldman“The Jungle,” by Upton Sinclair“Severance,” by Ling Ma“Temporary,” by Hilary Leichter“Severance” (2022—)“The Vanity Fair Diaries” (2017)“Doubt: A Parable,” by John Patrick ShanleyDolly Parton's “9 to 5”“Mad Men” (2007-15)“Industry” (2020—)“Norma Rae” (1979)“30 Rock” (2006-13)New episodes drop every Thursday. Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts.

Tina Brown will discuss her new book The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – The Truth and the Turmoil. Tina is the former editor of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Tina has written several other books including the Diana Chronicles as well as The Vanity Fair Diaries. Tina will explain why the public is so fascinated with the Royal Family, the continuing deterioration of Prince Harry's relationship with his brother William, the next in line to be king.  Why Harry decided to give up his royal responsibilities.  And Tina will explain why she believes that the monarchy will survive and prosper. There is much to cover so buckle up. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

In this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, she is joined by Tina Brown to discuss her new book, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor—the Truth and the Turmoil, out now from Crown. Please note: This episode was recorded before the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II. Tina Brown is an award-winning writer, the former editor in chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, and the founder of The Daily Beast and of the live event platform Women in the World. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Diana Chronicles, and in 2017 she published The Vanity Fair Diaries, chosen as one of the best books of the year by Time, People, The Guardian, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, and Vogue. In 2000 she was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to journalism. She lives in New York City. More to listen: Senator John McCain In His Own Words: A Tribute How Can We Stay Human in a F*cked Up World? Sheryl Turkle on Why Some Stories Take Time Roxanne Coady is owner of R.J. Julia, one of the leading independent booksellers in the United States, which—since 1990—has been a community resource not only for books, but for the exchange of ideas. In 1998, Coady founded Read To Grow, which provides books for newborns and children and encourages parents to read to their children from birth. RTG has distributed over 1.5 million books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Print isn't dead! Comedy icon John Early joins us for media titan Tina Brown's breathtaking front row seat to the golden age of magazines, “The Vanity Fair Diaries.” Lunching at the Four Seasons everyday, Nancy Regan's smokin' hot bod, expense accounts, bisexual villains, firing your nanny, Claus von Bulow, Jewish lesbians, Princess Di, balsamic drizzle—this is the ultimate lesson in “high/low.” It's all in the mix! And in the VIP Lounge (out Friday), we've got more high/low—Steven gets martinis at The Grill and stops by Carnegie Hall, while Lily's improv student gets scammed by a gigolo. To hear it all, join us at patreon.com/cbcthepod See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

She needs no introduction — but in magazine history, Tina Brown is rightly deemed a legend, reviving Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, before turning to the web and The Daily Beast (where I worked for her). Her new book is The Palace Papers. We talked journalism, life and royals.You can listen to the episode right away in the audio player embedded above, or right below it you can click “Listen in podcast app,” which will connect you to the Dishcast feed. For two clips of our convo — on Meghan Markle’s epic narcissism, and why women make the best monarchs — head over to our YouTube page. Having Tina on the pod was the perfect excuse to transcribe our popular episode with Michael Moynihan, who used to work for Tina at The Daily Beast — which also hosted the Dish for a few years. So we’re all old friends. From the Moynihan chat:Andrew: I was talking to Tina Brown about this not that long ago, with the great days of the big magazines in the '80s and '90s. Really, when you look back on that time, it was an incredible festival of decadence and clearly over the top before the fall.Michael: I love Tina. I did a thing — you can look this up — an interview with her, when her Vanity Fair Diaries came out, for The Fifth Column. Just Tina and I sat down and talked for an hour and a half, and it was one of the best things I think we’ve recorded, and got one of the best responses. Because people miss those stories.Perhaps Bill Kristol should check out the clip with Moynihan on how to change your mind on stuff you get wrong:A listener looks back to last week’s episode:Wonderful interview with Douglas Murray, with the two of you riffing off each other with brilliant dialogue. Very warm and affirming as well. I particularly enjoyed your discussion of the religious dimension as one aspect of our present dilemma. I know you would want to provide variety for the Dishcast, but please consider having him on again.Another fan:This was the most memorable episode in a long time (although they are all great). Of course, your dialogue was choir-preaching, and so I need to be careful in avoiding confirmation bias. That said, I found Murray’s elegant way of encapsulating the obvious — which I fail to express myself — truly invigorating. I rewound and listened to many parts several times over. I ordered his book today.Another listener dissents:I find the armchair psychoanalysis regarding ressentiment — as the organizing principle of what is happening in our culture today — to be one of the least compelling arguments made in the episode. Why not go ahead and attribute our perpetual unwillingness in the West to recognize what is great about it to Christianity’s concept of original sin? Or maybe read psychoanalytic literature on why an individual or group of people who are objectively improving might hold onto beliefs of the self or society as rotten? These seem just as likely as Nietzsche’s argument. Ultimately, what a person speculates to be the primary motivator of another person or group reveals a lot. Your speculation that it’s mostly ressentiment suggests you want or need to demonize the CRT crowd. This is tragic given that this is precisely what you and Douglas accuse the CRT crowd of doing. Another listener differs:I don’t agree with everything you and Douglas Murray write, but thank you for talking about the resentment and bitterness that’s driving politics and culture today. It’s gone completely insane. I used to work for a small talent agency, and during the pandemic I coached some actors over Zoom. During the George Floyd protests, one of my clients was up watching the news all night, not getting any sleep. I told her, look, you want to be informed and want to help. But you have to take care of yourself first or you’re no help to anyone. Go to bed and catch up on the news tomorrow. People criticized me for this kind of advice, saying I was privileged, that I just wanted to look away and not examine myself for my own inherent racism, etc. I couldn’t understand why people were being so unreasonable.I’m also a Mormon. After George Floyd was murdered, our ward started to discuss racism. Mormonism has a checkered past when it comes to things like Black men and the priesthood. Or even language in some of the scriptures. These are important conversations that our church needs to have. There were good things that happened, like Black people in the ward shared more about their experiences during meetings. But almost immediately it became weird. The women’s group did a lesson on Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility,” for example. We didn’t actually ever talk about the things I was hoping we’d talk about — how Brigham Young stopped Black men receiving the priesthood, for example. We were just told we all needed to acknowledge our white privilege and feel guilty about it. There was a part about redlining. There was no acknowledgment that some of the white people in this ward lived in low-income housing, basically had nothing, and had been stressed even further by the pandemic. It just felt unnecessarily divisive. I have no idea what the Asian members made of this talk, because it basically excluded them. There were so many holes in these theories, but I wasn’t brave enough to point them out.So it was a real relief to hear you and Murray talk about the way these ideas have infiltrated churches. The Mormon thing is typically like, “God wants you to be happy. Live this structured life, show compassion, work hard, love your family, and be happy.” But the DiAngelo ideas felt like, “you can’t even be saved, at least not if you’re white. Some people don’t deserve to be happy; they should only feel guilt.” It was easier to bring in a fad book and talk about property values than to talk about the awful passage in the Book of Mormon where it says dark-skinned people are cursed, but other people are “white and delightsome.” I felt like the second the door opened to have a serious conversation about the church and race, they immediately jumped the shark instead.From a fan of opera and ballet:Douglas Murray mentioned Jessye Norman and how her obituary was racialized. Well, in January of 1961, Leontyne Price made her Metropolitan Opera debut, and she and Franco Correlli received an ovation that was around 50 minutes long ... possibly the longest in Met history, or among two or three longest. There have been so many great black singers at the Met, such as Shirley Verrett, Kathleen Battle (who was loved by James Levine but whose voice I never liked), Eric Owens, Grace Bumbry, and many others. Here’s a snip of Price’s Met debut:Balanchine choreographed Agon (music by Stravinsky), arguably his greatest dance, for Diana Adams (white) and Arthur Mitchell (black) in 1957. They danced the pas de deux, which is an erotic tangle of bodies. Balanchine wanted the black/white tension. Here is a bit of it:And to my beloved Jessye Norman, whom I saw only once, here she is at her best:Another listener rolls out some poetry:I greatly enjoyed your conversation with Douglas Murray. He is fierce! Your mention of Clive James’s “The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered” reminded me of a similarly minded poem from Nina Puro. (I suspect one of them inspired the other.) I LONG TO HOLD THE POETRY EDITOR’S PENIS IN MY HANDand tell him personally,I’m sorry, but I’m goingto have to pass on this.Though your pieceheld my attention throughthe first few screenings,I don’t feel it is a good fitfor me at this time. Please know it receivedmy careful consideration.I thank you for allowingme to have a look,and I wish youthe very best of luckplacing it elsewhere.Shifting away from the Murray episode, here’s a followup from a intrepid Dishhead:I was excited to see my letter published on the violent toll homelessness takes on communities recently. I’ll be listening to the podcast with Maia Szalavitz soon, and I’ve got Johann’s book on harm reduction to read as well. (I loved the episode with Johann, bought his new book, loved it, and stopped being so online for about a week before backsliding ...)Shortly after I wrote that last letter to you, I realized that I wasn’t satisfied with just writing indignant letters about the bloody cost of complacency on homelessness. It’s really the story of Ahn Taylor — a sweet 94-year-old lady stabbed by a homeless man as she was walking in her neighborhood — that made me understand that complaining is not enough.So I’ve started a non-profit, Unsafe Streets, to take on this challenge. It’s sort of a “Take Back the Night”-style public safety crusade. It’s early days still, but we have a website, including pages for NYC and San Francisco, a Twitter feed, and a crowdfunding campaign. Next on my agenda is to create a page for Los Angeles, a detailed policy platform, and then to recruit a board and apply for 501c3 status.I’ve been keeping up with the Dish when I can (LOVING the conversation with Jonathan Haidt, and I HIGHLY recommend this complementary Rogan episode.) I’ve been busy with the kids and trying to get Unsafe Streets going in my free minutes.She follows up:I just listened to Maia’s episode, and I am pretty unsatisfied with her proposed solutions. Non-coercive acceptance and decriminalization is fine for people who are using drugs they bought with their own money in the privacy of their home. But public drug use, public intoxication, and the associated “quality of life” crimes (public defecation, indecency, etc.) make public spaces unsafe and uncomfortable for everyone else. Laws against these crimes should be enforced, which means arresting people and taking them to jail or some kind of treatment. Injecting fentanyl and passing out on the sidewalk is a very antisocial and harmful behavior, and should not be “decriminalized.”I agree with Maia that this is a complicated mix of addiction and severe mental illness. But I don’t think the cost of housing argument holds up. (A brief scan of the news will show you that there in fact ARE homeless encampments in West Virginia.) I think she was unfair in her characterization of Michael Shellenberger’s proposal, which includes tons of resources to expand access to and quality of treatment. Overall, Maia’s perspective is very focused on the benefit to the addict, but discounts the costs to the surrounding community. Thanks for keeping a focus on this subject!Another listener looks to a potential future guest:Hello! You invite your readers to submit guest ideas here. I submit Kevin D. Williamson — another nuanced “conservative,” Roman Catholic, Never Trumper, and admirer of Oakeshott. Oh, and he was fired after five minutes at The Atlantic for a previous statement about abortion.Thanks for the suggestion. Lastly, because we ran out of room this week in the main Dish for the new VFYW contest photo (otherwise the email version would get cut short), here ya go:Where do you think it’s located? Email your guess to contest@andrewsullivan.com. Please put the location — city and/or state first, then country — in subject line. Proximity counts if no one gets the exact spot. Bonus points for fun facts and stories. The winner gets the choice of a VFYW book or two annual Dish subscriptions. If you are not a subscriber, please indicate that status in your entry and we will give you a free month subscription if we select your entry for the contest results (example here if you’re new to the contest). Happy sleuthing! Get full access to The Weekly Dish at andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe

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On this episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell's guest is Tina Brown, author of “The Diana Chronicles” and “The Vanity Fair Diaries.” Brown was also editor at “Vanity Fair,” “The New Yorker” and founding editor of “The Daily Beast.” Mitchell and Brown share an exciting conversation about her life as a media legend and so much more. Listen and share with your friends. Recorded at Miami Book Fair 2019. Follow on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter: @booksandbooks. Host: Mitchell Kaplan Showrunner: Carmen Lucas Editor: Andy Stermer Links: https://booksandbooks.com/ https://www.businessinsider.com/tina-brown-vanity-fair-daily-beast-women-in-the-world-2018-4 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/tina-brown-on-vanity-fair-princess-diana-womens-rights-and-weinstein.html https://womenintheworld.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, August 29th, 2018 This week Boston Public Radio is revisiting some of our favorite conversations. In this episode you'll hear: Tina Brown joined us to talk about her latest book, The Vanity Fair Diaries. We opened the lines and asked you about your Q-tip IQ. Do you actually follow the instructions or do you take the cotton swab plunger—even if it means you might have to go to the ER? We talked to former White House Photographer Pete Souza, who put eight years of the Obama administration into his latest book, Obama: An Intimate Portrait. Novelist Meg Wolitzer discusses her latest book, The Female Persuasion. Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes, a wife and husband who survived the Boston Marathon Bombing, have written a children's book about another partnership—the one between Jessica and her service dog rescue, Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship. Cecile Richards, the outgoing president of Planned Parenthood, discussed what she’s doing next to keep the fight for women’s rights alive and well.

Tina Brown is going to visit Joan to talk about her fascinating book ,The Vanity Fair Diaries.

Tina Brown joins Christina and Danielle on this episode of The Femsplainers. The legendary editor dishes on legends-and how she managed it all.

Tina Brown joins Christina and Danielle on this episode of The Femsplainers. The legendary editor dishes on legends—and how she managed it all.

The #MeToo movement, dis-inviting Monica, and her new book "The Vanity Fair Diaries".

Tina Brown made her name as the legendary editor of Vanity Fair. Now, she's the Founder and CEO of Tina Brown Live Media, which puts on the annual Women in the World Summit. She's also the author of the recently released book "The Vanity Fair Diaries." This week, Tina talks to us about imposter syndrome, working with Harvey Weinstein, and her fascination with Ivanka Trump. It's a must-listen.

We debate Two Serious Ladies, a neglected 1940s 'cult' classic by Jane Bowles, and David Grossman's A Horse Walks Into A Bar, which won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. They both come highly recommended and are purportedly funny. But did our book clubs agree? For our regular interview, we talk to Kat Brown about how she started the Jilly Cooper Book Club. • Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @bookclubreviewpodcast. Email us at thebookclubreview@gmail.com, or leave us a comment on iTunes. If you like the show then click subscribe and never miss an episode.  • Find out more about the Jilly Cooper bookclub using #jillybookclub on twitter or seek them out on facebook. Kat Brown can be contacted using @katbrown. • Books mentioned in this episode: To The End Of The Land by David Grossman, The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, Rivals and Harriet by Jilly Cooper, La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust) by Philip Pullman, The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown and Swing Time by Zadie Smith. • For our next book club we will be reading and discussing Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman.  

Tina Brown, editor extraordinaire-author-longtime favorite guest, joins Satellite Sisters Lian, Liz and Julie for a lively, thoughtful, personal discussion about her new book The Vanity Fair Diaries. Plus, she offers advice to Meghan Markle, the American woman about to marry Prince Harry. Brown, who was very close to Prince Harry's mother Diana, has a unique take on this transition from Hollywood TV star to British royalty and a little bit of a warning, too.Vanity Fair Diaries is Tina Brown's contemporaneous diaries from the days when she hit New York as the shiny new editor of the struggling glossy magazine Vanity Fair. This is a remarkable woman's adventures in a glittering and scorching era: 1983 - 1992. Bold faced names in this Satellite Sisters discussion include Reagan, von Bulow, Demi Moore and Princess Diana. To listen to the Satellite Sisters previous interview with Tina Brown about her bestseller The Diana Chronicles, go here. Thanks to Thrive Market for sponsoring this weeks Satellite Sisters. For $60 of Organic groceries, free shipping and a free 30 day trail, visit thrivemarket.com/sisters('title:', u'Oprah 2020, Figure Skating, Upcoming Guest Hosts, Food Trends ')Thanks to today's sponsors BarkBox , Harry's and Care.com Another BIG announcement today. Guess who will be co-hosting with Lian while Liz and Julie are in Australia? The JV's back together! That's right. Sheila Dolan and Monica Dolan behind the mics for the podcast we release on January 23rd. Are you subscribed???In other news, we discuss Oprah's boffo Golden Globes message, the U. S. Figure Skating team for the Olympics, why we want athletes to #staynoisy, Lian's theme for 2018, more details on Liz and Julie's trip to the Great Barrier Reef, Ladybug Support House and 2018 dining trends. Also, we highlight some of your messages from the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. For great Satellite Sisters gifts, visit our online shop, go here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here. The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TV if you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretary and PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome.

Tina Brown has always been an observer. She began keeping a diary at age 10, became the editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine at 25, and by 30 she moved to New York from London to become editor-in-chief of a then-struggling magazine called Vanity Fair. She went onto The New Yorker and then created Talk magazine. She also wrote the bestselling biography of Princess Diana, The Diana Chronicles and launched the award-winning digital news site The Daily Beast. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of Tina Brown Live Media which hosts the Women in the World Summit. In this episode, Tina Brown opens up about how the magazine industry has changed over time, why she believes in sharing women's stories from all over the world, and the benefits of starting a career at a small company. Congratulations to our No Limits Entrepreneur of the Week: Kelly Howard, CEO of EightSixtySouth Find out more: https://www.eightsixtysouth.com/ Want to be a featured NLEOTW? Know someone who should? Send your nominations to NoLimitswithRJPodcast@Gmail.com Don

Recorded: December 21, 2017.Michael Moynihan (Vice News) in conversation with the incomparable Tina Brown. On the business and practice of journalism, the marvelous island of Manhattan, the authentic bullshit of Donald Trump, and #metoo. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Recorded: December 21, 2017.Michael Moynihan (Vice News) in conversation with the incomparable Tina Brown. On the business and practice of journalism, the marvelous island of Manhattan, the authentic bullshit of Donald Trump, and #metoo. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, is the founder of Women in the World. Her latest book is The Vanity Fair Diaries. “I believed that my bravado had no limit, if you know what I mean. I see limits now, let’s put it that way. I do see limits. But you know, I’m still pretty reckless when I want something. That’s why I don’t tweet much. I’ll say something that will just cause me too much trouble.” Thanks to MailChimp and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode. @TinaBrownLM [00:00] Longform Best of 2017 [03:00] Vanity Fair Diaries (Henry Holt and Co. • 2014) [05:35] Tatler [12:00] "Darkness Visible" (William Styron • Vanity Fair • Dec 1989) [14:40] "Guarding Sing Sing" (Ted Conover • New Yorker • April 2000) [14:40] Longform Podcast #38 Ted Conover [16:00] "Dominick Dunne on His Daughter’s Murder" (Dominick Dunne • Vanity Fair • March 1984) [28:10] "10 Years Ago, an Omen No One Saw" (David Carr • New York Times • Aug 2009) [31:50] The Diana Chronicles (Anchor • 2007) [38:40] "Bruna Papandrea Options Tina Brown’s ‘Vanity Fair Diaries’ For Limited TV Series" (Nellie Andreeva • Deadline • Sept 2017) [41:43] Women in the World  

Bruce Springsteen, Lian's son's college graduation, Julie's International News Round-Up, Liz on why UFO's matter and how you can become a Scottish lady, lord or laird - all on today's Satellite Sisters episode.Thanks for our sponsors Zola.com (promo code sisters), Storyworth (promo code sisters), BarkBox (promo code steffi) and Away (promo code sisters20).For great Satellite Sisters gifts, visit our online shop, go here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here. The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TV if you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretary and PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome. Links for today: Secret Department of Defense Dept tracking UFO's here. Listen to the episode of The Daily from NYT. Secret Santa for all of New Zealand!Julie's INRU from Russia: Putin runs again. Lian wants you to be a lady, lord or laird. Interested? Go here: Highland Titles. What's the opposite of schadenfreude? Mudita. Liz is going to try it out in 2018. It means to take pleasure in the happiness of others. Easier said than done. The Satellite Sisters have also announced the return of Satellite Sisters Book Club - monthly interviews featuring biographies, autobiographies and memoirs by and about women. In January, we will be joined by Tina Brown to talk about her juicy new memoir The Vanity Fair Diaries 1983 - 1992. In February, attention all Little House on the Prairie fans! Caroline Fraser is the author of the first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder has been named by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2017. We will let you know exact dates of these episodes soon, but get started reading over the holidays!

Are we betting on Bitcoin? Or Legos? Plus, the latest investments by Gates Foundation in Alzheimers Research, how NYT journalists cracked open the sexual harassment cases of Bill O'Reilly and Harvey Weinstein, Olympians testing whether the color of their uniforms makes a difference and Lian's reflections on her son's college graduation later this week. Queso or no queso? This week's sponsors are Away (promo code sisters20), RXBars (promo code sisters) Care.com (promo code sisters) and MeUndies (promo code sisters).To visit our online shop, go here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here. The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TV if you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretary and PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome. The Satellite Sisters have also announced the return of Satellite Sisters Book Club - monthly interviews featuring biographies, autobiographies and memoirs by and about women. In January, we will be joined by Tina Brown to talk about her juicy new memoir The Vanity Fair Diaries 1983 - 1992. In February, attention all Little House on the Prairie fans! Caroline Fraser is the author of the first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder has been named by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2017. We will let you know exact dates of these episodes soon, but get started reading over the holidays!

Legendary editor magazine editor Tina Brown dishes on her time as editor of Vanity Fair in the gilded 1980s of New York, which chronicled in blue school notebooks that became The Vanity Fair Diaries.

Tina Brown author of Vanity Fair Diaries with WILK's Sue Henry

Fires in Southern California, Matt Lauer's sex toys, first ever uterus transplant and Julie's international news from Russia, Korea. Julie also begins new Meghan Markle segment: Royal Report - An American in the House Of Windsor. Plus movies we recommend including The Post about Katherine Graham starring Meryl Street, The Greatest Showman about P T Barnum starring Hugh Jackman and Zac Effron and Ladybird, written and directed by Greta Gerwig.Thanks to today's sponsors Away, Harry's, Storyworth and Motiv. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here. The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TV if you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretary and PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome. On today's Satellite Sisters episode, we also announced the return of Satellite Sisters Book Club - monthly interviews featuring biographies, autobiographies and memoirs by and about women. In January, we will be joined by Tina Brown to talk about her juicy new memoir The Vanity Fair Diaries 1983 - 1992. In February, attention all Little House on the Prairie fans! Caroline Fraser is the author of the first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder has been named by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2017. We will let you know exact dates of these episodes soon, but get started reading over the holidays!

Welcome to our favourite *ever* episode of The High Low - as we try not to fangirl the fuck out.For those of you with short memories, the High Low is named in homage to iconic editor Tina Brown. The creator of High Low journalism - our founding ethos of merging the trivial with the political; the irreverent with the weighty - Tina became editor of Tatler aged just 25, of Vanity Fair aged 29, and then The New Yorker, before launching the short-lived Talk and then The Daily Beast.Now, in an arguably meta move, we get Tina into the studio, to discuss her hilarious, pacey and searingly honest memoir The Vanity Fair Diaries. We talk misogyny and #MeToo; Princess Diana and Trump; the Kardashians and Meghan Markle; and, of course, Weinstein - who Tina worked with for a disastrous 2 years after they launched Talk magazine together. We take a romp through the media decadence of the 80s (when having a ‘dress allowance' and a 'social secretary' was vital for any editor worth their salt), with the thread of tragedy thanks to the AIDS crisis, weaving its way throughout.The Vanity Fair Diaries have now been optioned by producer Bruna Papandrea, who is behind the epic hit Big Little Lies. So expect to see a gripping mini series of Tina's diary on your screens ASAP. Links:The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown: http://amzn.to/2hINVyxMarlena by Julie Buntin: http://amzn.to/2AmKR6KSarah Silverman on Louis CK, via The Guardian: http://bit.ly/2zN6r3nNora Ephron Knows What To Do, by Ariel Levy for The New Yorker: http://bit.ly/2jOkAa2 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tina Brown — the former editor of Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, the Daily Beast and more — talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983 - 1992." In the book, she looks back on the tell-all diary she kept at the time, dishing on the 1980s New York social scene, managing a print magazine in the medium's heyday and dealing with media bigwigs like Conde Nast's S.I. Newhouse, Jr. Brown says she saw Vanity Fair as a big circus, while the New Yorker was a "sleeping beauty" that had to be awoken, although she may be proudest of her lesser-known (and short-lived) work on Talk magazine. She also talks about working with Talk's financier, Harvey Weinstein; how she founded the digital-first Daily Beast and why she left; and why Facebook and Google should fund the future of local journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Wolcott talks about “Raising Trump” and “The Kardashians,” and Tina Brown discusses “The Vanity Fair Diaries.”