“Reporter” and “subject” are antonyms for a reason: They’re different roles that require different skill sets to excel within. The former Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi is learning this the hard way. In the fall of 2024, the writer went from chronicling scandal-ridden, attention-getting figures like Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to becoming one herself, thanks to a widely publicized (and allegedly nonphysical) affair with Kennedy, whom she had previously profiled for New York magazine. Nuzzi has had more than a year to adjust to this new notoriety and plot her return to public life in the form of “American Canto,” a quasi-memoir published this week by Simon & Schuster. Nuzzi had previously been announced as the new West Coast editor of Vanity Fair, though her sole byline

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