I've committed adultery in my heart many times" - as presidential admissions go this one is far from the worst. But it was still a far from comfortable moment when then president Jimmy Carter made the remark during an interview with the magazine.
Yes, the famed author of The Handmaid's Tale also had a short story published in Playboy in , an unexpected fit for a woman whose work is considered stridently feminist. In her tale a woman finds a 2,year-old male corpse in a bog at the same time as discovering her husband's affair. In a Playboy essay Gore Vidal argued that politicians use hot button issues, normally to do with sex, to control society and distract from more important issues.
Mailer, a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the most distinguished American authors, wrote for the December issue of Playboy. It appeared alongside an infamous interview with O. Simpson and a profile of David Bowie. The year after its publication, Playboy printed a serialized version of Fahrenheit , spanned out between the March, April, and May issues of the magazine. Kurt Vonnegut was a frequent author for Playboy , going back to the early s. More notably, however, the magazine printed an excerpt from Armageddon in Retrospect — his collection of stories and essays, published after his death in — around the time of its publication in The essayist delved into sharp arguments of heteronormativity and patriarchy, an apt representation of his broader intellectual considerations.
Some of the best Playboy articles , stories, and longform pieces were written by famous authors like Kurt Vonnegut, Joyce Carol Oates, and Truman Capote. Playboy has historically had a reputation as a source of information about the time's most topical debates and, dare I say it, literature.
Is the magazine attempting the relive its glory days? Executives from the company say Playboy' s decision to drop full female nudity has more to do with competition from online porn. Given Playboy 's history , I'm not exactly going to rush out and buy a copy. But here's to hoping that those who do will at least have good reading material like the articles and stories below. Now, in , it strikes methat if I do write about what happened, people will read it as a story and in time I, too, may be able to see it as one.
I know that it was almost horrific while it lasted —and it grew worse yet through the sleepless nights that followed. That does not mean that anyone else will be stirred by my telling of it. Aztecs, Toltecs, mestizos, even some bashful whites with German accents. All that and a lot of Texans. In the words of my husband, Rudy, I am a woman whose face and attitudes are known to something over half of the measurable population of the United States, whose name is on lips and covers and screens.
Which is what Rudy thought could save me from all this appearance implied. Julie silently revises: not exactly in the middle, not knee-deep in rotting leaves and dubious brown water.
More or less on the edge; sort of within striking distance. Well, in an inn, to be precise. Or not even an inn. A room in a pub. What was available. And not in a swamp anyway. In a bog.
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