You can read a snippet of the interview featured in this month’s Vanity Fair magazine here.

Here’s an exceprt:

“For so long I tried to separate myself from my past. I tried to move on, forget what I’d lost, but the truth is, none of it’s ever gone away,” writes CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper in an exclusive excerpt for Vanity Fair from his new memoir, Dispatches from the Edge (HarperCollins).
The horror of Katrina forced Cooper to confront his painful past, including the death of his father when he was 10 and his brother Carter’s suicide in 1988. “The past is all around, and in New Orleans I can’t pretend it’s not.”

He has to be the hottest reporter ever.

Is Anderson Cooper gay? The Village Voice’s Michael Musto seems to think so–along with a lot of other people in the gay community.

Here’s an excerpt from an article about him in Out magazine:

Sexuality-wise, he’s performed a delicate high-wire dance that most of the media have helped provide the silent accompaniment for (though the same scribes are not so timid about reporting on Christiane Amanpour’s marriage or Soledad O’Brien’s twins).

Lengthy profiles have been written about Anderson that take pains to not mention anything romantic—but this ultrapolite routine makes the loosey-goosier press so antsy that in ’03, Metrosource magazine jumped the gun and called Anderson “openly gay.” (“He is? I guess now he is!” I responded at the time in my Village Voice column.)

And last year, when a CNN.com transcript said he’d referred on the air to gays as “we,” it prompted a blogging fury of sheer glee, until the transcript was dutifully corrected to “they” and the world saddened.

You can read the full article here.