 What group is more profligate than writers?
Vanity Fair 's Graydon Carter might be there too, although he has transferred his main allegiance to a place called Patroon. Filling out the room are other editors, publicists, and writers from these magazines and GQ and House & Garden and so on. (Could be worse for the assistant: She could be forced to pick up her boss's birth-control pills, or her boss's pet from the vet, or presents for her boss's children--regular duties for Condé Nast underlings.) And the nature of the subject makes it hard to separate apocrypha from the truth. But every example of excess cited here was told to me by at least one source (and usually more than one) in a position to know.
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