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‘True stories of the true stories’: Musings and more from professor, cultural historian, and Vanity Fair contributing editor Mark Rozzo

The accomplished multihyphenate shares his reflections on world-building, parallel lives, and making it as a writer.

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Rozzo, on being an editor: “That’s that New Yorker thing that never leaves you; whatever that is, I feel like I’m bringing to wherever I go. It’s that level of attention to detail, trying to ask the right questions, trying to get the best out of writers that I can get.”

By Madison Rosenfield • August 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM

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Rozzo at an event for “Everybody Thought We Were Crazy,” alongside influential pop artist Edward Ruscha.