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If you had the opportunity – and good fortune – to work in the edition of magazines in the 1980s or in the 90s, there is a good chance that you will always talk about it.
When I started my journalism career at Condé Nast straight out of the university in 1992, even the humble editorial assistants like me could bring a city car to the house after 6 p.m. You get out of work after devoting perhaps six hours if you reduce long lunches (nobody has come before 10am), may transport a load of makeup and free clothes on “ready” of the fashion department, and see a line of black Lincolns in front of the HQ on Madison Ave. Flight on Aer Lingus towards a five -day luxury tour through the best distilleries in Ireland. It was a crucial search, of course, for this “Front of Book” piece of 400 words on the last whiskeys.
It was back “when the course was good”, because the former editor -in -chief of Vanity Fair Graydon Carter draws his new nostalgic memories on his adventures “during the golden age of magazines”. The subject is catnip for anyone in the edition, which probably explains the fact that such books on the years of glory are still being written.
Regarding the content, there is little that we have not heard in a form in New York magazine or another in the past two decades. But I still found myself reading the details of Carter Starch Education in Canada to access the right songs on the time when magazines such as Time and Newsweek (for which I worked) had their own buildings with their names on top, and the “uniform staff” who “brought dinner (with wine) in offices of writers on tea.
He rightly quotes the “magic realism” of time (where, with other well -known publishers like Walter Isaacson and Jim Kelly, made his debut in the 1970s), a place where ”
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