Carter Is To Spy As Irving Is To Salmagundi

Letters recently unearthed reveal that Graydon Carter was always a douche:

In a 1985 letter to [Spy co-creator Kurt] Andersen, Carter envisioned a city magazine that would “investigate the great commercial machines that fuel the city, the behind the scenes stories in art, literature, journalism, broadcasting, theater, fashion, banking, business, show business and the law. . . . A hundred years from now, the graduate student sifting through the racks at the New-York Historical Society will, with relish, throw himself upon old copies of Spy to get a feeling for what it was to be young and smart and living in New York in the eighties.”

I think I just reconsidered my desire to revisit the Wilt Chamberlain 20,000 women number crunching . . .