Writes Molly Fischer, in "Does Olivia Nuzzi Make Good Copy? Across social media, definitely. In her new memoir, 'American Canto,' not so much" (The New Yorker).
December 3, 2025
"I hesitate to take at face value Lizza’s account of Nuzzi’s behavior, but a specific detail sticks in my mind..."
"... he recounts finding a 'tabloid-style news story' she wrote in which she describes herself as a 'blonde beauty' and 'one of the most famous political reporters in America.' It is easy to imagine the narrator of 'American Canto' producing fan fiction about herself, because, in many cases, the book reads as if that’s what she’s doing. 'He threw himself onto the bed, his pink shirt unbuttoned, revealing my favorite parts of his chest,' Nuzzi writes, of a conversation with Kennedy."
Writes Molly Fischer, in "Does Olivia Nuzzi Make Good Copy? Across social media, definitely. In her new memoir, 'American Canto,' not so much" (The New Yorker).
Writes Molly Fischer, in "Does Olivia Nuzzi Make Good Copy? Across social media, definitely. In her new memoir, 'American Canto,' not so much" (The New Yorker).
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Eventually people are just going to get sick of the trivial nature of this 6th grade mean girls crap.
This is all funded by a system that pays too many people to do things that don't actually make lives better.
We need to stop giving social status and wealth to the popular girls who never grow out of 8th grade.
Ha, ha, when I first glanced at this, I saw 'Lizzo', and given the subject, wasn't at all surprised.
The claws are out for this American genius with French charms.
I'm so proud of myself. I still know almost nothing about this Nuzzi person. That's quite a feat in our media-saturated age. And this Lizza person? I know nothing at all. I won't even read the post above because it might taint my serene ignorance.
She's just signaling her white supremacist bonafides by firmly attaching "blonde" as prefix to "beauty" showing that she believes only blonde and by extension white women like her, can be truly beautiful. She makes me sick!
Tell Me More, Tell Me More...
Naughty Nuzzi is the hottest Olivia since Newton-John and she left bf Ryan stranded at the drive-in while she got physical with the ones she wanted faster than greased lighting. Will she give Larry some Summers lovin'? There are worse things she could do.
AI: "Olivia Nuzzi's book is not a work of fiction. Her book, titled American Canto, is categorized as a memoir or a personal history/account."
"While some critics have described the book as being evasive or a "tell-nothing memoir" for its lack of explicit personal details, it is officially published and marketed as non-fiction. Her former fiancé, Ryan Lizza, has controversially claimed in his personal online posts that the book is a work of fiction, but this is a claim made in the context of a personal dispute, not a literary classification."
The Boston Globe
"Newsroom unveils bold new ethics code: Sleep with your sources, but take notes"
What is the point of introducing us to this person. Not worth a nanosecond of even info junkies like me
"Lizza's account of Nuzzi's behavior..."
Makes me want to catch some z's...zzz.
Are they trying to make us hate books or just this particular eastrel
Yet these same a-holes transform into prudes and tabloid liars - with their hyper concern abut Trump's sex life.
You filisteenes.
Nuzzi again? I will give her points for knowing how to operate in the world of fashionable elite pseudo-political bullshit.
Ace of Spades properly trashed the entire enterprise a few weeks ago: https://ace.mu.nu/archives/417373.php#417373
So, the MSM is pretending to be shocked at a "Kiss and tell" book by a reporter? I can understand given their high moral standards and Christian values. LOL.
I still laugh at Barbara Wawa being upset by some "Kiss and Tell" book on JFK - 50 years after the fact. The MSM ability to be fake and hypocritical never ends.
And she was grand dame of the spew which encouraged others to be foolish
Ah, the fairer sex and her conventional romantic conceptions of gender differences.
From the excerpts that I have read, Nuzzi’s writings suffer the same florid wetness of those of all women who compose their words while they are still moist.
I am Laslo.
Dew on teh Lily makes her write silly?
Hopefully, when she is done at Starbucks writing her latest on her laptop, she at least discreetly wipes her chair-seat with a napkin before leaving.
I am Laslo.
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Men, too, may don polarized lenses? Wear rose-tinted glasses.
Kakistocracy seems to have left out Olivia Munn.
This topic sounds even more gripping than Epstein.
A modern journalist believes that her promiscuous sex is the path to fame and power, isn’t that great.
Lizza and the media are certainly selling "American Canto" for Livvy.
Here is the abstract painting of her in the nude that she had published in Vanity Fair.
https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/nuzzi-portrait-vanity-fair-1.png?w=1000&h=750&crop=1&resize=864%2C648
I look upon this entire thing much like the fictional and hilarious Twilight or the evil banality of 50 Shades. That is, something I hear about in public spaces that I have zero need to participate in.
Interview on the Bulwark podcast with Tim Miller.
She breaks down and cries ar the 47 minute mark: “terrified of the man I did not marry.” Lots of nebulous accusations. Drones following her - or not following her. Clear Marilyn Monroe reference - dangerous for women to keep diaries. Wuite a piece of work.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/olivia-nuzzi-breaks-her-silence?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Sons and Lovers
Naughty Nuzzi and Bobby Jr. had the steamiest romance since Lady Chatterly's Lover. But ex-bf Ryan's convoluted Trump shooting theory sounds more like Vicki Lawrence than D. H. Lawrence.
Now I haven’t heard that song since it was big, but when it was big, I heard it a million times.
It comes across as highly self-dramatized and bordering on fan fiction, which makes it hard to take as serious reporting. The tone shifts from journalism to personal fantasy very quickly.
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I wish I could remember who said that having "American _________" as the title of a book indicated that it was pretentious trash by a dumb, shallow writer.
What ever happened to that Epstein guy and those files? It was everywhere, and now it is nowhere. That is the darnedest thing!
For a blonde beauty, Naughty Nuzzi isn't much of a looker.
I'm waiting for Nuzzi's inevitable fall. It will likely happen after she makes an impolitic crack about racism. She will be viewed as particularly hypocritical as she was raised in the whitest of white New Jersey towns, Middletown, a town of 67,000 people with a grand total of 65 African-Americans. That's 0.1 % for those of you playing along at home. 1 out of 1,000!
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