It's hard to overstate just how much Playboy changed American culture. Not just sexual culture -- as even some of those too young to remember tend to know implicitly -- but media culture, journalistic culture, literary culture, pop culture. That's worth keeping in mind given that Playboy announced on Monday that, effective with its March 2016 issue, it's eliminating nude photos of women, with founder Hugh Hefner's blessing.So the old bit about men saying "I read it for the articles" to justify why they bought Playboy? The plan is to make that, well, mandatory.Honestly, though, a lot of men (and women) really did read it for the articles. As one of the leading outlets for literary fiction for decades, Playboy published a Who's Who of letters, including John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, Nadine Gordimer, Vladimir Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut and Saul Bellow. Its in-depth "Playboy Interview" was a forum for smart conversations with everyone from Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan to Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter -- the last famously telling the magazine during his 1976 run for president that "I've committed adultery in my heart many times." (Even my conservative Catholic father bought that issue, as I found out years later; it turned up buried in a box of his stuff after his death.) Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
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Argentina's La Bestia publishing house brings previously untranslated top English titles, from authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, into Spanish translations. The post Argentina’s La Bestia Revives English Authors in Spanish appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Amazon announced a Kindle World license for the books of Kurt Vonnegut, but not everyone thinks it's a great idea. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Jonah Lehrer resigned from The New Yorker after Tablet Magazine discovered Lehrer had fabricated quotes by Bob Dylan in Lehrer's latest book "Imagine: How Creativity Works." Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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A Vonnegut novella titled 'Basic Training,' about a young man visiting an eccentric relative, is available through Kindle only. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 10/08/2011 - 10:39 Marcella Berger is retiring from Simon & Schuster US from her position as vice president, director of subsidiary rights, after 35 years with the publisher. Among the titles and authors Berger sold rights to are journalist... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The sharpest review of Vladimir Nabokov’s memoir, “Speak, Memory,” was written by Nabokov himself. Continue reading at New Yorker
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