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Karen Valby

Austin
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Author of The Swans of Harlem and Welcome to Utopia; Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Fast Company; mother of girls.
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Karen Valby is the author of Welcome to Utopia: Notes from a Small Town. Her work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Real Simple, and O magazine. She lives in Austin with her husband and their two daughters.

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Searching for the Victims—and Answers—After the July 4 Flood That Devastated Texas

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By Karen Valby, Alec Soth
| Vanity Fair Verified
The flood that killed 27 girls at Camp Mystic last year also drowned nearly a hundred others in the Texas Hill Country, including numerous members of the local Hispanic community. Karen Valby speaks with the friends and neighbors who did the unthinkable work of sifting through the wreckage.
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Bad Bunny Used His Saturday Night Live Gig to Roast MAGA

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By Karen Valby
| Vanity Fair Verified
On the Saturday Night Live season premiere, host Bad Bunny delivered a glorious response to a week of sweaty MAGA noise around news of his Super Bowl halftime gig.
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Pedro Pascal: "A cinquant’anni tutta questa attenzione mi rende insicuro. A volte ho la sensazione che mia madre sia ancora accanto a me, la percepisco ovunque" | Vanity Fair Italia

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By Karen Valby, Sølve Sundsbø
| Vanity Fair (Italy) Verified
Questa intervista a Pedro Pascal è pubblicata sul numero 28-29 di Vanity Fair in edicola fino al 15 luglio 2025. Per i suoi amici e per la sua famiglia, lui è Pepelo, Pipi, Pedders, e PEDS. Anni fa su un set qualcuno ha iniziato a chiamarlo pepsi, e a lui piaceva. I fan su internet lo chiamano Daddy o Zaddy, termini usati per indicare un uomo maturo, affascinante e di stile che immaginano dominante, ma in un modo a cui non si opporrebbero. Io, per semplicità, lo chiamerò Pedro Pascal.
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