Weekend Spill: Tidbit Of Interest From Graydon Carter’s Memoir, “When The Going Was Good”; Tilley Watch Online, June 16-20, 2025

_______________________________________________________________________ Tidbit Of Interest From Graydon Carter’s Memoir Roving through my newly acquired copy of Graydon Carter‘s (fun!) memoir: When The Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During The Last Golden Age Of Magazines (Penguin Press), I came upon this fascinating passage that took place during Mr. Carter’s editorship at Vanity Fair. Here he describes a conversation with Si Newhouse:

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Tuesday Spill: Book Launch For Sorel’s “Profusely Illustrated”; Gil Roth Interviews Sorel

Book Launch For Sorel’s “Profusely Illustrated” Lotsa laffs at last night’s book launch for Edward Sorel’s Profusely Illustrated (published by Knopf) at the Century Association, just a skip and a jump from The New Yorker‘s old offices at 25 West 43rd Street. This cartoonist, accompanied by New Yorker colleagues Liza Donnelly and John Cuneo, dipped into the old building to

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