A sampling of the author’s many monogrammed items.
Photographer: Halie Chavez/BloombergThe Case for Monogramming Everything
A status symbol that stretches back centuries suddenly has new meaning.
When I reached the final section of Graydon Carter’s delicious new memoir, When the Going Was Good, one paragraph caused me to let out a sharp gasp.
It wasn’t a celebrity anecdote, like the time a Vanity Fair editor got locked in the bathroom at Cannes until the door was kicked down by Jean-Claude Van Damme. It wasn’t even that writer Bryan Burrough was once paid $500,000 to write three stories a year for the magazine (though that did make me choke a little).