Bryan Burroughs in The Yale Review:
For sheer cushiness, there’s a case to be made that there has never been a more palatial home for writers than Vanity Fair during Graydon Carter’s twenty-five-year run as editor from 1992 to 2017—a halcyon era for magazines that, given the internet-fueled destruction of print publications over the last fifteen years, already feels like ages ago. I was a writer there for all of it, and I savored every minute. If I share my part of its story accurately, you will probably hate me.
It is really Carter’s tale to tell, though. His winged impresario hair and singsong baritone made Graydon, as he was universally known, an icon of the period, a chortling counterpoint to The New Yorker’s Eustace Tilley mascot.
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