RFK Jr.’s Digital Lover Olivia Nuzzi’s Book Flayed as ‘Would

Olivia Nuzzi is no Joan Didion, despite her best efforts at appropriating the image and writing style of one of California’s most iconic and idiosyncratic chroniclers.

That’s the major takeaway from reviews of American Canto, the new book by Nuzzi, 32, who torpedoed her career as a star political reporter by having an alleged digital affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after she profiled him for New York magazine.

The book ostensibly provides a “firsthand account of the warping of American reality” during Donald Trump’s rise to power, written while Nuzzi was in “exile” in Malibu recovering from the fallout of her affair, which also ended her relationship with fiancé Ryan Lizza.

In fact, the book is mostly a “pretentious mess” of Didion pastiche—complete with Southern California fires,