Richard Lawson (born May 31, 1983) is an American journalist and critic. He rose to prominence as an entertainment writer for Gawker and was chief critic for Vanity Fair from 2018 to 2025. Lawson's debut YA novel, All We Can Do Is Wait, was released in February 2018. == Career == Lawson began his writing career at Gawker in 2007. Initially hired onto Gawker's ad sales team, Lawson secretly began participating in Gawker's active comments section under the handle LolCait, where his writing gaine…