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Ash Carter

Ash Carter


Ash Carter is the Deputy Editor for AIR MAIL. Formerly, he was a Senior Associate Editor for Esquire and Town and Country. With Sam Kashner, Carter, who lives in New York, is the co-author of Life Isn’t Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of His Closest Friends.

Act Two

In 1963, Mike Nichols was a 31-year-old former comedian with no immediate prospects. Then he met Neil Simon. A new book recounts what happened next, in the words of the key players

They Publish the Perished

Thanks to New York Review Books Classics, masterpieces such as Stoner, Speedboat, and Poison Penmanship are back in print and finding new fans

Nazis in the Basement

France

Succession, starring Ghislaine Maxwell

Her family makes the Roys of HBO look like the Brady Bunch

The Id of HBO

Bill Murray had Harold Ramis. Danny McBride has Jody Hill, who discusses the duo’s “misunderstood-angry-man trilogy”