Penguin Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his new memoir, “When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines” (to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press), former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter recounts the glory days of magazine publishing, and … Read more
The former editor of Vanity Fair for 25 years, Graydon Carter is a family man, father of five grown children, better known for his signature white hair and urbane elegance, never without a handkerchief – Hermès, he has 30 of them (“This is my greatest luxury,” he says) – chronicler of the privileged set of … Read more
Book Review When the Going Was Good By Graydon CarterPenguin: 432 pages, $32If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. The retroactive FOMO flows fast and thick through “When the Going Was Good,” former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s memoir about the final … Read more
