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Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s memoir, ‘When the Going Was Good,’ chronicles the glamour, the power and the boldface names from the golden age of magazine publishing.

After the release of a steamy Vanity Fair cover shoot with Cindy Crawford, the hit song went on to win a Grammy for female pop vocal performance in 1993.

In a recent essay for the Yale Review, Burrough, whose books include “Public Enemies” and “The Big Rich,” recalls that for 25 years, Vanity Fair contracted him to write three 10,000-word articles per year — for a peak annual salary of $498,141.

Carter bristled at plans to centralize Vanity Fair management under parent company Condé Nast and then-artistic director and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

Even when he drops names — and you don’t last 25 years as the editor of Vanity Fair without dropping names — you get the sense that he still can’t believe this is his life.