Pushing Buttons, Throwing Shade: 12 Minutes on the Conde Nast Elevators

How it Started: 15 minutes of EICs on the bizarre process of getting hired.

Awkward, strange, utterly confounding. Every Editor in Chief has a different origin story and all of them are odd. Featuring Ruth Reichl, Graydon Carter, Linda Wells, Jim Nelson, and Adam Rapoport.

Getting There: 14 Minutes on Town Cars & Concorde flights and the value of arriving in style.

Episode three of the Nasty explores how Conde Nast's stars moved about the world—caviar on the Concorde, flying Ferraris to the Rockies, and the birth of the company's Big Apple contract. Featuring: Alan Richman, Ruth Reichl, Ron Galotti, Linda Wells, Matthew, Punch Hutton, Tyrnauer, Andrea Linnett, Tom Florio, Susan White, and Joe Dolce.

All About Anna: 13 Minutes on Anna Wintour

Stories about Anna from colleagues, rivals, former roommates, including Linda Wells, Ron Galotti, Ruth Reichl, Brian McNally, Billy Norwich, George Wayne, et al.

Pushing Buttons, Throwing Shade: 12 Minutes on the Conde Nast Elevators

The first in a series of mini oral histories about working at Conde Nast when it was at its peak. Voices include Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter, Gourmet's Ruth Reichl, Allure's Linda Wells, GQ's Jim Nelson, etc. Plus: the origin story of @Conde Elevator.