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 to the courtrooms of Fleet Street, editor Graydon Carter's memoir revives the glamorous heyday of magazines when they were the vanguard of culture.

About the author

Graydon Carter is the founder of Air Mail. Before this, he was a staff writer for both Time and Life. He co-created Spy, edited The New York Observer, and for twenty-five years was the award-winning editor of Vanity Fair. He is also the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer of more than a dozen documentaries and one hit Broadway play. He and his wife live in Greenwich Village, not far from the Waverly Inn, and have five children.

Product details

• Authors: Carter Graydon
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2025
• EAN: 9781804711002
• ISBN: 978-1-80471-100-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 40 mm
• Weight: 650 g
• Illustrations: b&w illustrations throughout
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Memoirs, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, News media and journalism, Autobiography: writers