*Top,* Michael Bloomberg and Graydon Carter; *above,* Martha Stewart.

*Top,* Diane Sawyer; *above,* Bob Colacello and Jonathan Becker.

*Top,* Graydon Carter watches Michael Bloomberg’s speech; *above,* Tony Danza and Mary Donovan.

*Top,* Candice Bergen and Graydon Carter; *above,* Isabella Carter, Anna Carter, and Michael Bloomberg.

*Top,* Patrick McMullan and Amy Fine Collins; *above,* Christine Baranski, Gay Talese, and Isabel Cowles.

*Top,* Karah Preiss and Lisa Taddeo; *above,* Derek Blasberg and Chris Mitchell.

*Top,* Carl Swanson and Alex Vadukul; *above,* Edward Menicheschi, Jennifer Zuccarini, and Samira Nasr.

*Top,* Tad Friend, Aimée Bell, David Kamp, Anne Kreamer, Kurt Andersen, Susan Morrison, Graydon Carter, George Kalogerakis, and Michael Hainey; *above,* Wayne Lawson.

*Top,* Victor Garber; *above,* Shannon Wu and Joe Kahn.

*Top,* Louise Grunwald and friend; *above,* Anna Carter, Kurt Andersen, and Anne Kreamer.

*Top,* Clara Molot and Marie Brenner; *above,* Michael Bloomberg, Diana Taylor, and friend.

*Top,* Alessandra Stanley and Victor Garber; *above,* Barry Diller and Graydon Carter.

A Night in Celebration of Graydon Carter

At a party hosted by Michael Bloomberg, Martha Stewart, Candice Bergen, and Diane Sawyer gathered to toast the editor’s new memoir, When the Going Was Good

By Jack Sullivan

Photographs by Daniel Paik

It’s difficult to think of anyone in New York who has hosted more book parties than AIR MAIL Co-Editor Graydon Carter. Over the past five decades, he’s celebrated books by everyone from Salman Rushdie to Christopher Hitchens, to LeBron James, to Gay Talese. So it was surprising to find Carter on the other side of the equation at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Tribeca last Tuesday night, when former mayor Michael Bloomberg rallied what seemed like the entire New York media world to toast the publication of Carter’s memoir, When the Going Was Good.

The 93-year-old Talese was one of the first guests in the door and seemed to be locked in a tacit endurance competition with Martha Stewart—both of whom outlasted the crop of twentysomethings in attendance. Stewart chatted with her self-professed doppelgänger, Diane Sawyer, who was there with her granddaughter, Saskia Jensen. Ronald Perelman, whose name is on the building, also made an appearance. Meanwhile, Candice Bergen, Barry Diller, Christine Baranski, Victor Garber, and Tony Danza ensured that Hollywood was well represented.