Kevin Sessums: From Food Stamps to FourTwoNine Magazine

One great advantage of profiling a wordsmith like Kevin Sessums, formerly among Tina Brown’s marquee writers at Vanity Fair, is that he can be counted on to deliver marquee quotes.

Here for example is how he describes, to New York Times reporter Laura M. Holson, what he deems to be a signature Brown talent. Sampled after Sessums made an infamous remark about a Roseanne Barr Vanity Fair cover in the post-Brown era:

He recalled being seated at a booth at the Royalton Hotel soon after when Ms.