Michael Lewis, financial writer and New Orleans native, has left Portfolio and The New York Times Magazine and will be reporting exclusively for Vanity Fair, reports the New York Observer.

Lewis covered Hurricane Katrina extensively for the Times Magazine, and recently wrote a story of waiting out Hurricane Gustav at his sister’s Uptown home (not much happened). According to the Observer, the details have yet to be worked out, but it would be nice to get a little financial analysis and New Orleans spice inserted amid the beautiful-people stories and stink-strip ads in VF.