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Why, at 75, does Graydon Carter still feel the need to impress?

The humblebrag and name-dropping read more like a Craig Brown pastiche than the reminiscences of one of America’s most celebrated magazine editors

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Graydon Carter, photographed by Nikolai von Bismarck. Nikolai Von Bismarck
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