But I did not reckon on the cost, did not know this would mean spending endless hours attending to the business of the magazine. Meetings that had once been held twice a year became monthly affairs, and I grew depressingly familiar with the dreary tenth-floor conference rooms. Struggling with spreadsheets and financial reports, I found myself thinking wistfully back to Truman asking, “You don’t suppose Anna Wintour worries about budgets, do you?”
