Three weeks after Amy Chozick had her first child, Anna Wintour called with an assignment. The then- Vogue editor-in-chief wanted Chozick, who rose to journalism fame covering Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, to write the first big mainstream profile of Stormy Daniels. “You don’t say no to that,” quips Chozick. “So the first time I left my baby, it was to go to strip clubs in Milwaukee.”

The trip began the now-infamous Vogue story, but it also provided Chozick with the early inspiration for what became her debut novel. Before the trip, she purchased old issues of Playboy and other adult magazines on eBay to read what were then the only examples of Daniels’ previous interviews. “I was interviewing nannies at the same time and my husband would be like, you forgot there’s

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