Read: The Playboy Book
Read: The Playboy Book: Fifty Years
Review: 4/5
A fascinating retrospective of Playboy from the fifties to the new millennium. Before this book I didn’t know that Playboy has contributed so much to our literary culture. A small list, Playboy: discovered Shel Silverstein; published The Fly, Fahrenheit 451, and much else; published Ron Kovic’s memior Born on the Fourth of July; helped Alex Haley (who was a longtime contributer) compile his widespread research into the epic work Roots; assigned Cameron Crowe to review The Who (which got him his job at Rolling Stone) and later published his Fast Times at Ridgemont High; conducted the last interview with John Lennon.
Unfortunately (in the case of the articles) this book is a pictorial retrospective and so contains pictures of the first page or artwork for the article and a description of it, but not the full text.
sMom said
Jan 20, 2008 @ 11:52 AM
Absolutely…and I am almost certain that Dad had the first issues as he was an early subscriber, too bad we do not have them now!
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