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Bryan kicks off the week with a conversation with Graydon Carter, who comes on to discuss Spy Magazine going to Vanity Fair and more. They discuss the following:
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<li>The idea behind Spy Magazine (2:46)</li>
<li>Who took the stories the hardest from Spy (9:57)</li>
<li>His perception of Donald Trump (10:36)</li>
<li>If Spy could have worked in the early 2000s (13:20)</li>
<li>Being offered a choice between Vanity Fair and The New Yorker (14:19)</li>
<li>How writers were treated like stars (23:26)</li>
<li>How Vanity Fair was able to land the &#8220;deep throat&#8221; story, the source behind the Watergate scandal (29:10)</li>
<li>Creating the Vanity Fair Oscar Party (38:00)</li>
<li>Why he left Vanity Fair in 2017 (40:50)</li>
<li>What we lost from the magazine era (43:33)</li>
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Host: Bryan Curtis 
Guest: Graydon Carter 
Producer: Brian H. Waters

Bryan Curtis is the editor-at-large of The Ringer and cohost of ‘The Press Box’ podcast. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, he's written for The New Republic, Slate, Play, and Grantland. He plays a deejay in a movie about the end of the world.

Graydon Carter on Vanity Fair, Spy, and the Glorious Excess of the Magazine Era

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