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Empire of the Elite by Michael B. Grynbaum: A history of Condé Nast that misses the big story

Having edited British GQ for 22 years, when I left in 2021, as the operation became centralised in New York, my agent at Curtis Brown told me to write a memoir about my time there. Having zero interest in doing so, I said I would rather concentrate on other things…

Evening Standard

Empire of the Elite by Michael M Grynbaum – inside the glittering world of Condé Nast

How the publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker redefined high culture

The Guardian - UK

Graydon Carter's London guide: the editor and author eats at Maison François and loves Anderson & Sheppard

The author longs for the return of the Draycott, would take a date along the Embankment, and wishes you could still smoke indoors

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Trump was so upset by ‘small hands’ reference in 1984 GQ cover story he told staff to buy up all copies, writer says

The journalist wrote that Trump had ‘hands small and neatly groomed’ in his 1984 profile

The Independent UK

Graydon Carter hired Christopher Hitchens, pissed off Trump and revealed Deep Throat. He calls himself a ‘beta male’

The editor of Vanity Fair, Radhika Jones, is stepping down after seven years. Amid the media buzz about who might take her role – long considered a plum one – is a surprising question. “Is it still a good job?” asked the New York Times last week.

The Conversation

When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – all the fun of the Fair

In his memoir the former Vanity Fair editor and man-about-town recalls the golden age of glossy magazines, when sales were in the millions and ‘the budget had no ceiling’

The Guardian - UK

When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – juicy stories from the heydey of magazines

From Anna Wintour’s table manners to Oscar party hijinks, the former editor of Vanity Fair tells all

The Guardian - UK

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Journalist Graydon Carter: ‘If there was another 9/11 this week, I don’t think the world would rush to support us’

The former Vanity Fair editor on how #MeToo changed Hollywood, what Christopher Hitchens would make of the US today, and the value of a handkerchief

The Guardian - UK

Funny feuds and sky-high budgets – Vanity Fair in the Nineties makes today’s journalism seem particularly bleak

THE READING LIST: In his new memoir, illustrious New York-based editor Graydon Carter travels back in time to the ‘golden era’ of print magazines, painting a picture of six-figure salaries, petty fights with stars, and carte blanche with the company credit card. Annabel Nugent mourns a bygone era

The Independent UK

Ex-Vanity Fair Editor Calls Meghan Markle 'The Undine Spragg of Montecito': What It Means And Why The Publication Turned On Her

Carter's comparison of Meghan Markle to a character from Edith Wharton's early 20th-century novel who was 'spoiled and selfish' has reignited debate over Meghan's public image.

International Business Times UK

Meghan Markle described as being ‘slightly adrift’ on reality by former Vanity Fair editor

The future duchess objected to questions about her relationship during her cover shoot

The Independent UK

Meghan is slightly adrift on the facts and reality, Vanity Fair’s ex-editor says

Graydon Carter recounted the story behind Meghan’s appearance on the cover of the magazine in 2017.

Evening Standard

Former Vanity Fair editor says just one person was banned from famous Oscars party for life

Graydon Carter is preparing to reveal the thrills and spills of running the Condé Nast glossy during ‘the last golden age of magazines’

The Independent UK

Digested week: Mum has died and my dog has cancer. I skipped World Happiness Day

Trump may have dumped Farage, and Musk has lost $100bn off Tesla’s share price but can’t I even enjoy the schadenfreude

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The Big Apple blossoms: from red carpet to Trump courthouse, New York lives again

Emerging from Covid’s shadow, the city is resonating with glamour, politics and power – and the traffic jams are building up too

Evening Standard

Vanity Fair's Barry Keoghan gimmick is so passé

The actor went bare-buttocked for the magazine’s 30th annual Hollywood issue

Evening Standard

Air Mail valuation cut by nearly 50% as takeover talks loom

Air Mail has seen its valuation slashed by nearly 50% amid reports the fledgling magazine is in takeover talks.

The Independent UK

The Epstein list: How public figures and associates have reacted to being named

After the unsealing of hundreds of documents, prominent figures tied to Jeffrey Epstein issued statements denying any wrongdoing

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Bill Clinton Marched Into Vanity Fair And Threatened Journalists, Jeffrey Epstein Victim Claims

Virginia Roberts-Giuffre claims the former US president tried to protect his "good friend" Jeffrey Epstein. The post Bill Clinton Marched Into Vanity Fair And Threatened Journalists, Jeffrey Epstein Victim Claims first appeared on Bored Panda.

The Independent UK

What do the Jeffrey Epstein documents reveal about his ties to Clinton?

The former president faces renewed public scrutiny after being identified multiple times in the newly unsealed court documents

The Guardian - US

Second wave of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein unsealed

More than 300 additional pages deepen the picture of Epstein’s elite orbit while resurfacing old claims

The Guardian - UK

Gwyneth Paltrow: is her life a work of performance art?

How else do you explain the $15,000 vibrator, rectal ozone therapy and vaginal steaming? Perhaps the actor is giving her greatest performance yet ...

Evening Standard

Graydon Carter lights up Langan's with Cool Britannia 2.0 soirée

The Airmail founder lit up Langan's with a cocktail party this week

The Independent UK

Why London is more glamorous than New York, according to former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter

The journalist, who was editor of the glossy magazine for 25 years, said he would prefer to eat ‘off the streets’ of London compared with the ‘filthy’ pavements of New York

Fortune

David Zaslav is Hollywood's latest villain, but Wall Street predicts a plot twist

The Warner Bros. Discovery CEO is the ultimate penny-pinching entertainment and media mogul for the private-equity era. But can a more austere Hollywood still deliver hits?

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