Graydon Carter
Graydon Carter
Edward Graydon Carteris a Canadian-born American journalist and has served as the editor of Vanity Fair since 1992. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 July 1949
CountryUnited States of America
growing-up crazy kids
To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.
kids four minutes
Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.
numbers issues hypocrisy
Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.
trying stuff looks
I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between,
editors issues interesting
There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month.
notebook memories taken
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. The thing is, all that time you spend logging and then curating the quotidian aspects of your daily life is time taken away from actually doing things.
age
Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.
bullying ignorance rocks
It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.
math simple years
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.
men unattractive attributes
Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.
elements magazines narrative
Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
years america age
It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.
age headlines quaint
In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.
life-is lighting
Life is all about seating and lighting.