The holiday lunch

The best day of my career happened on one of the worst days of my life

Back in my former, fancy life as the editor in chief of a Conde Nast fashion magazine, I spent a lot of time putting in command performances. Mostly they had to do with advertisers: lunching with them, accompanying them to black ties at the Waldorf (always the Waldorf), meeting with their offspring to discuss internships, which were always theirs for th…