Graydon Carter speaks in his memoir with misty-eyed melancholy for the page counts and ad revenues of years gone by.

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.

He bounced back big time with editorships at Spy and Vanity Fair, a glamorous life he details in a new memoir.

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 ...

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 ...