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
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As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now call the 99 percent - and I was a lot closer to the bottom than to the top of that 99 percent. At some point during the intervening years, I moved into the 1 percent.
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New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most.
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Somewhere along the way, New York became all about money. Or rather, it was always about money, but it wasn't all about money, if you know what I mean. New York's not Geneva or Zurich yet, but we're certainly heading in that direction. London is, too.
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I walk down the street and people don't go, 'My God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.
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Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.
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As any journalist will tell you, there are few professional situations as vexing as when a friend becomes involved in a major story that you feel you must cover.
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Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal superpower it is today.
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You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
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Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.
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In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.
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I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts.
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I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.
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Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can't compete with.
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There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an international city, not an English city. They're still a little vessel of Englishness in what is otherwise a pretty rambunctious place.