{"id":13700,"date":"2025-04-02T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13700"},"modified":"2025-04-17T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:04:03","slug":"graydon-reflects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/02\/graydon-reflects\/","title":{"rendered":"Graydon Reflects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2025\/03\/14\/graydon-carter-and-the-golden-age-of-new-york-city-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times via DNYUZ<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Graydon Carter and the Golden Age of New York City Media<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When the Going Was Good: former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jfw8oUHxW0M?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lorne. Graydon. Keith. Three abiding kings of New York City\u2019s cultural life are the subjects of new books. Lorne is Lorne Michaels, the creator of \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d who is examined under the stereo microscope that is Susan Morrison\u2019s biography, \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/12\/books\/review\/lorne-susan-morrison.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lorne<\/a>.\u201d Graydon is Graydon Carter, a co-founder of the stinging magazine Spy in the 1980s and the editor of Vanity Fair during its plumpest and happiest decades, whose memoir is our topic today. Keith is Keith McNally, the proprietor of that consummate French bistro Balthazar \u2014 which is so well run, so well lit and so well victualed that surely one idea of a good death is to deliquesce in one of its red leather banquettes \u2014 who has a memoir out soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lorne is 80; Graydon, 75; Keith, 73. Each is still very much in the game. But to have these books in a clump on my coffee table has given me an Auld Lang Syne-ish feeling. An era is approaching its end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2025\/03\/14\/graydon-carter-and-the-golden-age-of-new-york-city-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at DNYUZ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times via DNYUZ Graydon Carter and the Golden Age of New York City Media Lorne. Graydon. Keith. Three abiding kings of New York City\u2019s cultural life are the subjects of new books. Lorne is Lorne Michaels, the creator of \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d who is examined under the stereo microscope that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}