Editor of Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter, is this week’s Shelf Lifer. He reveals a predilection for Herman Wouk, an in depth knowledge of certain sections of the Eaton’s catalogue and a fondness for a particular character in P.G. Wodehouse.
What are you reading at the moment?
Don’t Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk
As a child, what did you read under the covers?
I grew up in Canada, where the nights end early, and a child’s day does as well. So pretty much all my evening reading was done under the covers. A lot of Hardy Boy mysteries. And the Eaton’s catalogue. For the lingerie ads.
Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
I do recall dabbing an eye while reading J.B. Priestley’s Angel Pavement.
You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books.
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