Tina Brown

Gosh, this is the lair, the coven.

Well, something happens, you know, when I sort of hit the typewriter, you know, that dates me.

Something happens when I hit the keyboard.

And also, I think that because I'm writing this Substack Fresh Hell, it's a kind of, I'm in a different zone.

I'm sort of my diary self, if you know what I mean.

Mm-hmm.

And I don't feel I have to have any sort of restraint anymore, which is very exciting to me as a writer.

Well, I mean, I sort of feel, you know, I think of myself in the third trimester of my life rather than the age that I am.

And we'll go through your many iterations.

And why not?

You know, it's like I feel liberated in some way.

I don't care, you know.

And it's sort of great not to in a way be sort of,

in charge of lots of people either because I don't have to worry, well, what happens if I want that person to advertise or if I want to put that person on the cover?

I can just sort of let rip and it's liberating and I think it's needed actually, you know, because there's so much kind of pussyfooting and mealy-mouthing around that

has been going on in writing, it seems, for the last sort of 10 years, that now you can just really have fun.

And I can have fun anyway, and I'm trying to.

Well, you're absolutely right about the nostalgia.

You know, my book, The Vanity Fair Diaries, which I wrote, you know, seven or eight years ago, people just keep coming up to me and saying, oh, I've been reading it.

It's like the, you know, I feel so nostalgic for that period.