Kyle Harrison
to-read
When the Going Was Good
When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
- Author
- Graydon Carter
- Published
- 2025
- Pages
- 432
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Carter’s memoir of running Spy and then Vanity Fair through the last period when a magazine had that much money and that much cultural authority — an account of an industry from someone who was handed its best job.
Where I saw it: A bare Amazon link saved in the note.
Connections
- Media — the industry.
- Republic of Letters — the portfolio idea this sits closest to.