Graydon Carter
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Vanity Fair’s Heyday March 18, 2025
For sheer cushiness, there’s a case to be made that there has never been a more palatial home for writers than Vanity Fair during Graydon Carter’s twenty-five-year run as editor from 1992 to 2017—a halcyon era for magazines that, given the internet-f...
The Not-So-Discreet Charm of Graydon Carter March 17, 2025
After our interview, Graydon Carter emailed me.“Oh God, did I do okay yesterday? Too boring? Too indiscreet? Drank too much? Didn’t drink enough?”...
His Back Pages October 04, 2024
Graydon never told us he once slept in a boxcar. Long before he co-founded Spy magazine, became the arbiter of wit and glamour as the editor of Vanity Fair, and went on to create our digital weekly, Air Mail, Graydon worked for an extended summer sti...
