Graydon Carter

“At the beginning, I wanted to change the voice, which mostly meant cleansing the florid baroqueness of the language. In the Vanity Fair I inherited, a restaurant wasn’t a restaurant, it was a ‘boîte.’ (…) A party wasn’t a party, it was a ‘fête.’ (…) Out went glitzy, coiffed, wannabe, A-list, and even celebrity. Out went (…) fuck (okay in a quote but not with regard to the actual sex act)”. How Graydon Carter cleaned out the copyedits in 1990’s Vanity Fair.

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