#88: Toby Young, journalist and author
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How I Came to Work at 90 Fair
When the modern review went belly up in 95, I had already done a couple of pieces for Vanity Fair. Greg looked at me and said, what are you fucking kidding? Looked like a dental catalogue. He was full of kind of cynical, wise-cracking New York humour. And we got on very well, and he commissioned me to do a couple of things. But it was so comfortable being at Vanity Fair. We used to describe it as a velvet coffin. You didn't actually do very much, but you had this extraordinary expense account. Because you worked for Vanity Fair, which at that time was this fantastically glamorous publication. It's Spy, yeah, in the mid
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