When Hugh Hefner died, I honestly assumed that the reaction of many people would be “He was still alive?” Well, I was wrong. In fact, ole’ Hef’s death served as the springboard for an astonishing amount of tongue-clucking from a wide variety of double-dome bigwigs, including Ross Douthat and David French. Mr. Cotton Tail, it…
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What kind of woman writes for Playboy?
Over at Jezebel, Susan Braudy takes us waaayyy back to 1969 for a tale of consciousness raising Playboy-style, when Playboy’s editors decided they would take a poke at this feminism thing by hiring a woman (yes, you heard that right) to write about it. As Susan tells it, she was encouraged by her agent to…
What sort of man reads Playboy?
Well, not me, though God knows I’ve tried. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been gnawing away at Playboy Cover to Cover: the Fifties, an indispensable compendium of Playboy’s first bloom. Yet in the old days, people really did read Playboy—not for the articles, but for the fiction. For Hef and the gang, fiction…