My first week in New York in 1978, when I was about to start as a writer at Time. And my first week in the south of France after retiring from my job of 25 years as editor of Vanity Fair.
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Graydon Carter
b. 1950
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Born in Canada, Graydon Carter, 75, moved to New York in 1978. He became a staff writer on Time magazine, followed by Life in 1983; in 1986, he co-founded the satirical publication Spy. He edited the New York Observer for a year before becoming editor of Vanity Fair in 1992; he retired in 2017. His memoir, When the Going Was Good, is out now. He lives in New York City with his third wife and has five children.
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It will be the one or two or three senior Republican leaders who take a public and forceful stand against the ugly lunacy of the Trump administration.
Intermittent laziness.
That time I congratulated a waitress on being pregnant.
My children’s education.
Content. Cheerful. Appreciative.
“Didn’t you used to be Graydon Carter?”
Canadians are trained to say sorry to almost everything and everyone.
Getting into a tense argument with Russell Crowe during one of the Vanity Fair Oscar parties.
The metabolism I had in my 20s.
With dozens upon dozens of beautiful women weeping over my casket.
Be generous and kind. Honestly, those two things did everything for me.
That I didn’t go to Turkey during the pandemic for one of those male hair treatments.
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