come for the first person horror, stay for the reported-out deets

Everyone’s talking about this story from The Cut today about the New York scam artist Anna Delvey, which is a great reported companion piece to read alongside the first-person essay that one of Delvey’s victims published in Vanity Fair last month. Both make for a good side-by-side comparison of the merits of traditional reporting vs. using a first-pers…