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And then it all came apart: a falling-out with Ms. Brown, a long descent into substance abuse, followed by unemployment and a time on food stamps. These days, Mr. Sessums is trying to mount something of a comeback. Executives there say the magazine is a way to raise online advertising and help build an audience for the website.For Mr. Sessums, it is an opportunity to capitalize on a 30-year career. For his first issue, he put his old Hollywood pals Sarah Jessica Parker and Bravo’s Andy Cohen on the cover. He tapped Courtney Love for a coming issue. She will be naked again. Mr. Sessums described FourTwoNine as “the queer child that resulted from the assignation between Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine and The New Yorker.” But Mr. Sessums’s future in magazine publishing relies on the success of a lean start-up, a far cry from the luxurious world he once inhabited. “I look on the start-up culture the way I look on sobriety,” said Mr. Sessums, staring out the window of his small apartment on Telegraph Hill.




“It’s one day at a time.”Like so many of the best Hollywood stories, this one begins with a breakup.For nearly 15 years as a contributing editor, Mr. Sessums wrote 27 cover profiles for Vanity Fair, before he split in 2004 with the magazine that defined him as a writer. “If you are at a place like Vanity Fair, you become identified with it,” he said. Afterward, “you are sort of heartbroken and you have to find an identity that is not based on a job.”Everywhere in Mr. Sessums’s apartment there are reminders of his previous life. On one wall is a print of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe, a nod to his stint as executive editor of Interview in the mid-1980s. And tucked away in the kitchen is a water-stained copy of the first feature he edited for Ms. Brown in 1990.She had plucked him from Interview to edit the Fanfair section and write profiles. “I spotted him early on and I never regretted it,” she said in an interview last week. His stories were as much about him as his subjects, a style she encouraged.




“I looked at it, like, if they were going to slap your name on the cover of a magazine and build you up, you might as well put yourself in the story, too,” Mr. Sessums said.In 1992, Ms. Brown left to become the editor of The New Yorker. Few of the stars she nurtured were invited to join her. “Vanity Fair was perceived as a gossipy magazine even though they do great pieces,” said George Hodgman, a magazine and book editor who worked with Mr. Sessums and, later, Ms. Brown, whom, Mr. Hodgman said, “didn’t want that many writers with a Vanity Fair imprimatur.”Ms. Brown concurred: she said she didn’t want to create Vanity Fair 2.There was tension. In 1994, two years after Ms. Brown left, Vanity Fair caused a kerfuffle when it photographed Roseanne Barr for the February cover wearing a black bustier and thigh highs, her legs spread. Mr. Sessums wrote the article. He told a friend at the time, “It is our first scratch-and-sniff cover.” He recalled being seated at a booth at the Royalton Hotel soon after when Ms. Brown stopped by.




“‘I heard what you said about that cover!” Mr. Sessums said she told him. You are the Oscar Wilde of New York!’ ” Mr. Sessums nodded at her. “That is her way of complimenting me and denigrating me at the same time,” he said. “She was really good at that.” Ms. Brown was baffled at Mr. Sessums’s interpretation, saying, “Kevin could be self-indulgent.”For a while, Mr. Sessums continued to ride high at Vanity Fair. But he and Mr. Carter, who succeeded Ms. Brown, had stylistic differences. “Kevin produced a personal type of story,” Mr. Carter said. “It’s not my style.” Over time, he got fewer assignments. Mr. Carter described the parting as a “slow drift.” “He never fully dropped out,” he said. “He’d come to the Vanity Fair Oscar party.”But Mr. Sessums said he was hurt. “It was a huge part of my life and I loved it there,” he said.Around the same time, Mr. Sessums said he learned he was H.I.V. positive, a result of casual sex and drug use.




He decided to author a memoir about his troubled childhood in Mississippi, while continuing to write for magazines. But celebrity journalism had matured. Hollywood publicists wielded enormous power by restricting access. Celebrity gossip was becoming a commodity.Mr. Sessums, used to spending days with a subject, resisted the change to shorter interviews. “They gave you an hour in between a bowel movement and a Botox injection,” he said.In 2008, Ms. Brown re-entered his professional life. She had partnered with Barry Diller, the chairman of the media and Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp, to found The Daily Beast. Soon, Mr. Sessums was freelancing for his old boss, writing celebrity Q. and A. columns, which took less time, but paid less, too.But the change in celebrity journalism was not the only obstacle. As Mr. Sessums later acknowledged, drugs were increasingly an issue. He recalled interviewing Daniel Radcliffe in 2009, when the “Harry Potter” star was finishing a Broadway run in “Equus,” saying he showed up for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel exhausted after a night of casual sex and smoking crystal meth.




He apologized for his rumpled appearance and blamed it on a stomach bug. The Daily Beast published the Q. and A. a week later. (Ms. Brown said she saw no evidence of his drug use.)In 2010, Ms. Brown became editor in chief of Newsweek after it merged its operations with IAC. Mr. Sessums hoped for a full-time position in Los Angeles at the newly named The Newsweek Daily Beast. But a job never came, said people with knowledge of those talks, because Mr. Sessums was asking for a car, moving expenses and increased salary. Ms. Brown said she told Mr. Sessums, “Those days are gone, Kevin.”Mr. Sessums called it a “misunderstanding.”By 2011, Mr. Sessums said he had begun using crystal meth intravenously. “I still have a scar here,” he said, lifting his left shirt sleeve to reveal a two-inch stripe. (On his arms are also two quotes, one from Emily Dickinson, which he got after being 90 days sober, the other from John Keats.) By the end of the year, he left New York and temporarily moved to a rooming house in Provincetown, Mass., where he attended 12-step meetings and volunteered in a soup kitchen.




(He said he has not spent time in rehabilitation.) Friends told him to sell his artwork. “It would be a sign of giving up,” he said. He put everything in storage.Six later months later, Mr. Sessums relapsed and was kicked out of a friend’s home, he said. He was forced to drop off his two dogs, Archie and Teddy, at a foster home near Boston. As Mr. Sessums drove away, he watched Archie barking wildly, scratching at a sliding-glass door. “I totally lost it,” he said. “And I began to sob. My friend reached out to me and said, ‘This is what surrender feels like.’ ”In telling this story, Mr. Sessums choked back tears. “In that moment of so much pain, my life began again,” he said. “I grieved for lots of stuff. I grieved for the person I’d lost, my past. For the drug addict.” He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. “I just let it all go,” he said.With no place to live, Mr. Sessums went back to New York, and another friend took him in. He returned to Provincetown in October 2012 and, six months later, was beginning to get his life back together.




One piqued his interest: editor in chief of a new magazine based in San Francisco. The magazine, FourTwoNine (the numbers spell out “gay” on a cellphone keypad), was the brainchild of Richard Klein, an entrepreneur who had started Surface magazine in 1993.Mr. Klein saw Mr. Sessums’s posts on Facebook, where the writer has a supportive following. He invited Mr. Sessums to lunch at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston. FourTwoNine needed someone with Mr. Sessums’s contacts. “And he needed this opportunity as much as we needed him,” Mr. Klein said. He offered him a job. “My life changed at that moment, at that lunch,” Mr. Sessums said.About a year ago, Mr. Sessums moved to San Francisco, and the first issue made its debut last October with 85,000 copies printed, costing $12.99 an issue. It is getting promising reviews, including from an old boss. “It’s very assured so young in its life,” Mr. Carter said.Mr. Sessums said he is working harder than ever. He keeps his two-year sobriety chip and a small figure of the Hindu deity Ganesha, commonly called the lord of obstacles, in his pocket.

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