Graydon Carter, the last great bon viveur of American print journalism, has called his new memoir When the Going Was Good, and, oh boy, was it good. Reading his tales of casual excess in publishing from the 1970s to 2000s is like reading about the last days of Rome. Editors with unlimited budgets! Journalists hopping around the world on Concorde! Publishers who let you name your salary! Annie Leibovitz, the world’s most expensive photographer, took Carter’s passport photo. Vanity Fair paid Norman Mailer $50,000 to cover the 1992 Democratic National Convention, only for Carter to join the magazine and decide that it was written so badly he couldn’t publish it — but he still paid Mailer in full. Was that his most over-the-top gesture