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This is Dominick Dunne’s Christmas card from the late sixties. “These are letters and doodles from Richard Avedon. These are letters that have significance,” he said, digging through an overstuffed cardboard box.

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He has been reluctant to hand the project over to a professional archivist, in part because the work of sorting felt too idiosyncratic and too intimate. The basement contained dozens of boxes of papers and other ephemera excavated from his mother’s apartment and art studio. “I wanted an ordinary kitchen, because I don’t care at all about food,” he joked. He dug some lukewarm bottles of water out of a small refrigerator. Cooper showed me around the place, which was stylishly appointed with period-appropriate antiques and art work, including several paintings by his mother. Their sons-Wyatt, two and a half, and Sebastian, eight months-were playing upstairs. On a recent weekday morning, I met with Cooper at his home, a restored 1906 firehouse in Greenwich Village, which he shares with his former partner and current co-parent, the night-club owner Benjamin Maisani. I found my way to Cooper’s podcast when I was feeling hungry for fellowship and support. Sometimes I feel like a zombie that’s been stabbed in the heart with a sharp stick, but rather than collapsing, or dying, I just keep on lurching about, moaning haphazardly, stumbling toward the horizon. So far, I have found the experience of grief bewildering. This past August, my husband of seventeen years passed away we have a beautiful one-year-old daughter, Nico.

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It is a tender and elegantly honest exploration of how death can crack open the lives of the people left behind. In September, Cooper started “ All There Is,” a seven-episode podcast about his passage through grief. It helps me to know this is a road that has been well travelled.” “No matter what you’re going through, there are millions of people who have gone through far worse. “My mom and I would talk about this a lot,” Cooper said recently. (Vanderbilt had watched, desperate and helpless, as Carter leapt from the terrace of the family’s fourteenth-floor apartment in Manhattan.) For Cooper, who is now fifty-five, loss has become an unexpected beacon in his life-a way of constantly reaffirming his humanity. In 2019, his mother, the artist and clothing designer Gloria Vanderbilt, passed away at ninety-five, of stomach cancer. When the CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was ten, he lost his father, Wyatt, to heart disease when he was twenty-one, his older brother Carter died by suicide.

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