When the Going Was Good [electronic resource] : An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
Graydon Carter2025
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 IN THEINDEPENDENT, GQ, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL
TIMES AND BBC CULTURE When the Going Was Good is Graydon Carter's lively
recounting of how he made his mark as one of society's most talented editors and
shapers of culture. Carter arrived in New York from Canada with little more than
a suitcase, a failed literary magazine in his past and a keen sense of ambition.
He landed a job at Time, went on to work at Life, co-founded Spy magazine and
edited The New York Observer before catching the eye of Condé Nast chairman Si
Newhouse, who tapped him to run Vanity Fair. With his inimitable voice and
raconteur's quip, Carter brings readers inside the drawing rooms of the great
and not-always-good of America, Britain and Europe. He assembled one of the
best-ever stables of writers and photographers under one roof, and here he
re-creates in real time the steps he took to ensure that Vanity Fair during his
25-year run cemented its place as the epicentre of ...
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Author:
Graydon Carter, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Grove Press UK, 2025
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1 online resource (1 text file) (432 pages, 6527441.0 Bytes,)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781804711026
Language:
English
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BRN:
529682
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