Why am I here?
Welcome everyone to my Substack diary which is simply a place - in the third trimester of my life (as I prefer to think of it) - to unload my observations, rants, news obsessions, and human exchanges with the wildly eclectic cast of characters who populate my seething inbox.
I’ve been a transatlantic media diva for close to four decades – editor in chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Talk, founder of The Daily Beast news site, and The Women in the World Summits, author of two best-selling royal tomes The Diana Chronicles and The Palace Papers, and The Vanity Fair Diaries, creator of Truth Tellers, an annual investigative journalism summit in London in honor of my late fabulous newspaperman husband Sir Harry Evans. Thanks to the crazy creative roller coaster of my life, I’ve collaborated and collided with so many great writers, culture shapers, newshounds, and iconoclasts over the years. So at a time when we awake every day to a news alert from Hades, I now have a place to share some of my intel and invite you to join the conversation.
What to expect
Mostly I shall write in notebook form because Big Think columns require three linked ideas and a pithy conclusion which, after a day of the required intellectual toil, can be instantly erased by some new cloudburst of crap in the unceasing news cycle. So, in this Fresh Hell Substack, I can go long or short whenever I want. Expect my diary to run every Tuesday, but who knows how prolific I might become with encouragement? I might also assign zeitgeisty pieces for a fantasy publication I don’t have to edit.
Behind the curtain
The fun of diaries is they take you behind the scenes and mix public and private. While I am still an action junkie and there’s plenty of high life on my calendar I am, by nature, a bookworm and misanthrope with the two sides of my personality constantly at war. Off stage, my beloved buffers from the ever-encroaching turmoil of the real world are Georgie, my on-the-spectrum 38-year-old son who for the last few years has been my chaotic, hilarious room-mate; my dynamo BFF daughter Izzy who produces documentaries and podcasts and scans everything I write to be sure I don’t say something that will get me cancelled; and the third love of my life, her irresistibly chunky female English bulldog, Gimli, whose huge jowly face and glimpse of protruding tongue eternally enchant me. Georgie, Izzy, and Gimli will all, I suspect, insinuate their way into this Substack.
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