Graydon Carter

And what age is this?

Like 19, 20.

This is the University of Ottawa.

Anyway, that consumed my life.

It was the great, I have no idea what I was doing.

Nobody knew what they were doing.

It was called the Canadian Review, and it was a political literary magazine.

It had a very healthy circulation, but it did nothing but lose money, and it failed.

We eventually sold it to our closest competitor, and I came to an editing program in New York City, and from there it led to a job at Time magazine in 1978.

Yes, I had a lot of girlfriends.

I was okay with the ladies.

And it's funny, I thought you were going to ask me like a rosebud question.

And then I was in the car on the way up here.

I thought, okay, I taught canoeing at summer camp every year.

And that's one of my few skills is I'm really good in a canoe.

And you got earned chevrons from the Canadian Canoeing Society, whatever it was, to go on your paddle.

And I had these two beautiful paddles, one for the stern and one for the bow.

And I brought them to New York as sort of decoration for my apartment, which was slim on appointments.

They were sitting in the corner.

I got into a fight with an early girlfriend in New York, and she grabbed one of them and smashed it over my head.