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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-person P.O.V., and it’s an easy study of why we need both in order to properly absorb (and okay, fantasize about) a lifestyle and crime most of us can’t even begin to imagine.
come for the first person horror, stay for the reported-out deets
come for the first person horror, stay for…
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-person P.O.V., and it’s an easy study of why we need both in order to properly absorb (and okay, fantasize about) a lifestyle and crime most of us can’t even begin to imagine.