The editor Graydon Carter’s memoir, “When the Going Was Good,” has the effect of focusing the mind on the present moment, ...

Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's memoir, 'When the Going Was Good,' chronicles the glamour, the power and the ...

The former editor of Vanity Fair for 25 years, Graydon Carter is a family man, father of five grown children, better known for his signature white hair and urbane elegance, never without a ...

There is enough in Graydon Carter’s memoir to make a journalist today seethe. The ex-editor of Vanity Fair warns as much in the telling title of his new book: When the Going Was Good. Gusseted by ...

Graydon Carter’s position as the editor of Vanity Fair was shaky when he launched the magazine’s now-famous Oscars party. The Canadian-born Carter, 75, took over the glossy Condé Nast monthly ...

The former editor of Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter, eviscerated Meghan Markle by calling her the “Undine Spragg of Montecito,” seemingly in reference to her life after splitting from the royal ...

Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has described Meghan Markle as “The Undine Spragg of Montecito.” In a Rorschach Test conducted by Interview Magazine on March 27, 2025, Carter shared ...

The retroactive FOMO flows fast and thick through “When the Going Was Good,” former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s memoir about the final golden age of magazine publishing. The glamour.