 Conant went on to work at "Newsweek" magazine for seven years, and wrote profiles for "Rolling Stone", "Spy" magazine, and "The New York Times".Additionally, she was a contributing editor for "Esquire", "GQ", and "Vanity Fair", from which she resigned to write her first book, "Tuxedo Park".Her profile of James Watson, the co-discoverer of the double-helix, was featured in "The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2004".