Filled with colorful memories and intimate details, “When the Going Was Good” is Graydon Carter’s lively recounting of how he made his mark as one of the most talented editors in the business.

As a boy growing up in Canada in the 1950s and 60s, Graydon Carter had a feeling ... Newhouse was philosophical. ‘The good story was most important.’ Carter’s hero-worship of Newhouse ...

Bottomless budgets. Important journalism. In-office brow care. Graydon Carter wants to make sure you know how great magazines ...

Vanity Fair in the Nineties makes today’s journalism seem particularly bleak - THE READING LIST: In his new memoir, ...

Calder McHugh is deputy editor of POLITICO Nightly.

MEMOIR When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines Graydon Carter Grove Press, ...

Longtime restaurateur and media figure Graydon Carter thinks the end of outdoor dining is a travesty. His opinion is striking ...

Graydon Carter's new memoir is filled with art tales, and and a family-style Italian dinner series for the art world is ...

When I started working for Vanity Fair in 1995 I remember coming into the office one morning to discover that most of the ...

Many years ago, when I was between magazine jobs in New York, I twice cold-emailed Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter, whom I’d never met, looking for work. He responded both times ...