4 takeaways from Olivia Nuzzi's memoir

"But many readers will still comb through " American Canto" looking exclusively for new details about the scandal that at least briefly derailed Nuzzi's journalism career. Last year, while she was Washington correspondent for New York magazine, news broke that she had engaged in a romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his failed 2024 presidential campaign. (At the time, Kennedy's representatives said that Kennedy and Nuzzi had met on only one occasion, while she was writing a profile of him that New York published in November 2023.) She parted ways with the magazine and with her fiancé, political reporter Ryan Lizza, with whom she had been contracted to co-author a book about the 2020 election."

"The lead-up to the Tuesday release of "American Canto" by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, has been dizzying and acrimonious: In addition to keeping up with the disclosures from an excerpt published by Vanity Fair and in a profile of Nuzzi in the New York Times, readers have been greeted with a series on Lizza's Substack in which he accuses Nuzzi of, among other things, having an affair with former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford when he was running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2020."

"RFK Jr. told her, 'You'll need to be brave.' Throughout "American Canto," Nuzzi refers to Kennedy as "the Politician." The specifics of their relationship - how and when it began, for example - generally remain hazy, though she describes the poetry they"

American Canto is largely vague about the scandal that derailed Olivia Nuzzi's career while offering some new details about her entanglement with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Nuzzi generally avoids naming many figures directly, referring to Kennedy as "the Politician." The timeline and specifics of the relationship remain hazy, with Kennedy's representatives saying they met only once during reporting for a November 2023 profile. Nuzzi parted ways with New York magazine and ended her engagement to political reporter Ryan Lizza, who later published accusations on Substack alleging additional affairs. Pre-release coverage included excerpts in Vanity Fair and a New York Times profile.

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