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S uperlatives PEOPLE, CULTURE, STYLE VIEW FROM THE TOP raconteur of the rockies WITH HIS PULP FICTION RETROSPECTIVE EARNING RAVE REVIEWS AND TWO BOOKS BECOMING MOVIES, ASPENITE AUTHOR MARK SEAL DISCUSSES HIS CAREER EVOLUTION. PHOTOGRAPHY BY EMILY CHAPLIN AND CHRIS COUNCIL BY AMIEE WHITE BEAZLEY C Mark Seal in his Aspen home. all me a geek, but I have a running list of writers whom I intend to meet before my time is up, and on that list is Mark Seal. A National Magazine Award finalist and contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2003, he's also a true Texas gentleman and a full-time Aspenite since 2006. So when I went to The Living Room lobby lounge at The Little Nell during a particularly busy après session at the end of the spring skiing season, I zeroed in on Seal's white tuft of hair from across the room and made a beeline for him, checking him off my metaphorical bucket list. Seal's career is what dreams are made of: He has been at the vanguard of long-form investigative journalism since the '70s, and anyone who reads Esquire, Playboy, Town & Country, or the aforementioned VF knows him—or continued on page 64 ASPENPEAK-MAGAZINE.COM 063-064_AP_SP_VFT_SUM_Fall_13.indd 63 63 5/6/13 10:35 AM