 Whose dog was thrown a birthday party? What is the article doing with this detail?
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.
 S.I. Newhouse Jr.’s dog. The article uses this to demonstrate the absurd expenditure of the Condé Nast magazines.
 Thomas Maier’s dog. The article uses this to demonstrate how Condé Nast has become a successful in group.  S.I. Newhouse Jr.’s dog. The article uses this to demonstrate the absurd expenditure of the Condé Nast magazines.  S.I. Newhouse Jr.’s dog. The article uses this to demonstrate that the absurd expenditure of the Condé Nast has a kind side  Thomas Maier’s dog. The article uses this to demonstrate the absurd expenditure of the Condé Nast magazines.