Since this seems to be the season for sharing personal accounts of working under Graydon Carter during his fabled tenure Vanity Fair (1992–2017) — all in celebration of the editor’s new memoir, When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines, out March 25 from Penguin Press — let me humbly offer my own.
This is not another story of a Vanity Fair writer earning a half-million dollars to file three stories a year, which they’d report…