when the going was good: an editor’s adventures during the last golden age of magazines

＂From the pages of Vanity Fair to the red carpets of Hollywood, editor Graydon Carter’s memoir revives the glamorous heyday of print magazines when they were at the vanguard of American culture.＂--

Graydon Carter is the founder of Air Mail. Before this, he was a staff writer for both Time and Life magazines. He co-created Spy, edited The New York Observer, and for twenty-five years was the editor of Vanity Fair. He has produced more than a dozen documentaries and one Broadway play. He lives in New York, not far from the Waverly Inn, and has five children.