Dana Brown: ...true tales of excess, triumph and disaster

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Join us as we get a fun, behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to work at Vanity Fair magazine during a magical time in the magazine business. Our guest is Dana Brown, who was a 21-year old college dropout when he was hired by legendary Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief, Graydon Carter.

Over the course of 25 years, Dana rose up the ranks to become the magazine’s deputy editor. He’s written about this coming-of-age experience dealing with celebrities, politicians, journalists, photographers and the like in his new book, "Dilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph and Disaster."

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:10.6	I'm Laura Owens.
0:11.7	And I'm Jan Black.
0:12.7	On this episode, we'll get a behind the scenes look at what it was like to work at Vanity Fair magazine during a magical time in the magazine business.
0:21.5	Our guest is Dana Brown, who was a 21-year-old college dropout when he was hired by a legendary
0:26.9	Vanity Fair editor-in-chief, Graydon Carter.
0:29.7	And over the course of 25 years, Dana rose up the ranks to become the magazine's deputy editor.
0:35.8	He's written about this coming of age experience
0:38.1	and dealing with celebrities, politicians, journalists, photographers, and the like
0:42.1	in his new book, Dilettante, True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster.
0:48.2	Dana, thank you so much for joining us.
0:50.3	Thank you guys so much for having me.
0:52.1	So kind of you.
0:53.5	Congratulations on writing a book that is really hard to put down. Amen. It's fabulous.
0:59.6	Gosh, you're so, you're so sweet. You know, it's funny because you exist. And I worked with writers for,
1:04.5	for, you know, almost 25 years. And I'd never sort of been on this side of the equation. And it is a really, like,
1:13.3	lonely, frightening thing to sit down with a blank piece of paper and start to write a book and then
1:20.6	write a book. And then, you know, you kind of forget, like, oh, my God, people are going to
1:24.1	actually read this. I forgot. Like, oh, gosh. But I've gotten such wonderful
1:28.8	feedback. So it's been, it's been really gratifying and really exciting. And thank you so much.
1:33.7	It's so kind of you guys to say. How did you first encounter Graydon Carter, the legendary editor
1:39.4	of Vanity Fair, like we mentioned? And how did just a few encounters with him change the entire course of your
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