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🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | This week we sat down with legendary magazine editor, Graydon Carter, to talk about his new memoir when the going was good. |
0:07.6 | From the early days at Spy to his 25-year run at Vanity Fair, Graydon gave us an insight look at his incredible career and the many lessons that he picked up along the way. |
0:18.7 | I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did. |
0:22.5 | As to our next guest is a titan of the publication industry helping shape the modern |
0:29.1 | magazine landscape from his perch as one of the most successful editors in history. |
0:36.1 | Graydon Carter is the former editor of Spy Magazine, |
0:40.4 | the New York Observer, |
0:42.3 | and most famously, Vanity Fair. |
0:45.8 | He's out now with a new book, chronicling, his remarkable career. |
0:49.6 | It's entitled When the Going Was Good, |
0:52.0 | and editors adventures during the last golden age of magazines. |
0:57.5 | And Graydon Carter joins us now. |
0:58.9 | He's also the founder and co-editor of the Digital Weekly Newsletter Air Mail, which I love. |
1:04.7 | And the photography incredible. |
1:06.5 | And most importantly, of course, you and Kurt Anderson. |
1:11.5 | Because, I mean, you had everything in the world to think you could just start a magazine lamp. |
1:16.0 | You and a New Yorkers started Spy Magazine. |
1:19.1 | Yeah, we were young enough to not worry about the bridges we were burning. |
1:23.7 | And funny, I saw him last night. |
1:25.6 | And, yes. |
1:26.1 | Yeah. |
1:26.6 | Yeah. |
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