Graydon Carter’s position as the editor of Vanity Fair was shaky when he launched the magazine’s now-famous Oscars party.
The Canadian-born Carter, 75, took over the glossy Condé Nast monthly in July 1992 after having founded the satirical magazine Spy. As he writes in his new memoir, “When the Going was Good” (out Tuesday), the first couple of years at VF were “dreadful.”
“The atmosphere was so poisonous I wouldn’t even bring my family into the office,” he writes, explaining that some staffers still loyal to former editor-in-chief Tina Brown were “deeply hostile and subversive.”