"One of Graydon’s wizard wheezes at Spy was to send extremely small cheques to extremely rich people to see who would bother to bank them. The first cheques were for $1.11 and half the recipients succumbed. So then Spy sent cheques for $0.64, and 13 people, including Rupert Murdoch, banked them. The next cheques were for $0.13 and only two people banked them. One was Adnan Khashoggi, a notorious arms dealer; the other was Donald Trump"

#GraydonCarter #Biography

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/06/when-the-going-was-good-by-graydon-carter-review-all-the-fun-of-the-fair

When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – juicy stories from the heydey of magazines https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/04/when-the-going-was-good-by-graydon-carter-review-a-joyous-account-of-a-swashbuckling-media-era #Autobiographyandmemoir #Journalismbooks #GraydonCarter #Lifeandstyle #Magazines #CondéNast #Culture #Media #Books

Journalist #GraydonCarter: ‘If there was another 9/11 this week, I don’t think the world would rush to support us’ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/30/journalist-graydon-carter-if-there-was-another-911-this-week-i-dont-think-the-world-would-rush-to-support-us

Good interview. Some great background on Trump, media, NYC & how to treat people–people you work with and for. [New York Magazine, Vox, On with Kara Swisher Podcast]: Graydon Carter on Vanity Fair, Editing & a Short-Fingered Vulgarian Named Trump

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-with-kara-swisher/id1643307527?i=1000701039209

“People underestimate Canadians,” [former Vanity Fair editor Grayson Carter] said. “They mistake politeness and conviviality for weakness. Canadian winters are so brutal that after generations and generations of surviving those winters, Canadians have spines of steel. [Trump] would be wise to stay away from this in the same way Hitler made a mistake charging into Russia."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/style/graydon-carter.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.LND6.j3tlQCKoRdn3&smid=url-share

#GraydonCarter's #AirMail Yuks It Up With Psychopath.

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