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When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
By Carter, Graydon
- ISBN
- 9780593655900
- Publisher
- Penguin Pr.
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Reviewed on March 1, 2025 | Arts & Humanities
Carter, longtime editor of Vanity Fair, has written a chronicle of his life in publishing that is a microcosm of the last 50 years of upscale American magazines. Opening with an excellent chapter on working for the Canadian railway as a teenager, the book details how he left college and started The Canadian Review in 1973. He wrote for Time and Life before cocreating the satirical and biting S...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
