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- The Twelfth Anniversary Playboy Reader ed. Hugh M. Hefner (Souvenir Press, 1966, 63/0d, 875pp, hc); Reprint (??? 1965) anthology. [IC/PSP]
- 7 • Preface • Hugh M. Hefner • pr
- 11 • Naked Nude • Bernard Malamud • ss Playboy Aug ’63
- 28 • I Defy You • Henry Miller • ar Playboy Jan ’62
- 31 • Gala at the Tour d’Argent [Gala] • Ludwig Bemelmans • ss Playboy Dec ’62
- 45 • Living with Labor • J. Paul Getty • ar Playboy Mar ’64
- 55 • The Room of Dark • Gilbert Wright • ss Playboy Jan ’58
- 66 • The “Noble” Experiment • Ben Hecht • ar Playboy Dec ’63
- 86 • What’s Become of Your Creature? • Herbert Gold • ss Playboy Apr ’59
- 104 • Playboy Interview: Albert Schweitzer • Playboy • iv [Albert Schweitzer]
- 111 • The World of Heart’s Desire • Robert Sheckley • ss Playboy Sep ’59
- 118 • Bird • Richard Gehman & Robert George Reiner • ar Playboy Jan ’57 [Charlie Parker]
- 131 • A New Chapter in the Human Comedy [Homer Macauley] • William Saroyan • ss Playboy Jul ’64
- 144 • Proposition • Garson Kanin • ss Playboy Jan ’62
- 150 • The Uses of the Blues • James Baldwin • ar Playboy Jan ’64
- 160 • The Lion’s Share • Harvey Jacobs • nv Playboy Sep ’61
- 189 • Victory Parade • Henry Slesar • ss Playboy Apr ’57
- 193 • The Literati of the Four-Letter Word • Leslie A. Fiedler • ar Playboy Jun ’61
- 203 • Bus Story • Calder Willingham • ss Playboy Jul ’62; Later published as Chapter 6 of the novel Eternal Fire.
- 219 • Rainbows in a Bucket • Vance Bourjaily • ar Playboy Oct ’64
- 235 • Sex and the Office • Helen Gurley Brown • ar Playboy Jul ’64; Later much expanded to the book of the same name.
- 247 • A Night in the Byzantine Palace [Hollywood] • Ray Russell • ss Playboy Jul ’63
- 261 • The Very Acme of Romantic Love • Wolf Mankowitz • vi Playboy Jan ’64
- 264 • The Fifteenth Station • T. K. Brown, III • ss Playboy Jul ’61
- 280 • How to Read a Book Superficially • Mortimer Adler • ar Playboy Dec ’63
- 291 • Anthony from Afar • Bernard Wolfe • nv Playboy Feb ’62; Seemingly one of the stories used in Come On Out, Daddy.
- 325 • Playboy Interview: Art Buchwald • Playboy • iv Playboy Apr ’65 [Art Buchwald]
- 345 • The Hildebrand Rarity [James Bond] • Ian Fleming • nv Playboy Mar ’60
- 375 • Excerpts from Unpublished Private Letters • D. H. Lawrence • lt Playboy Jan ’62
- 385 • Noises in the City • Irwin Shaw • ss Playboy Jun ’62
- 396 • The Truckdriver • Alberto Moravia • ss Playboy Jul ’56
- 403 • Six New Poems and a Parable • Carl Sandburg • gp Playboy Oct ’60; Skyscrapers Stand Proud, pm; Love is a Deep and a Dark and a Lonely, pm; If You Hate a Man, pm; The Evening Sunsets Witness and Pass On, pm; Fathom This Murder, Sir, pm; High Moments, pm; Poetry and Liberty, ss
- 411 • Hairy Gertz and the 47 Crappies • Jean Shepherd • bg Playboy Jun ’64
- 422 • The Age of Overbreed • Julian Huxley • ar Playboy Jan ’65
- 439 • The Case of the Difficult Husband • Robert Graves • ss, 1959; Reprinted in Playboy, Jan 1960.
- 453 • The Blooper Girls [from Esprit de Corps] • Lawrence Durrell • ss Playboy Sep ’57; The novel is 1957, and may have appeared before the excerpt.
- 458 • A Bit of a Dreamer, a Bit of a Fool • Romain Gary • ss Playboy Mar ’64
- 471 • Father Brother and the Cool Colony • Roger Price • ss Playboy Dec ’60
- 482 • The Labors of Love • Anatole Broyard • ar Playboy Oct ’61
- 493 • The Barracudas • Budd Schulberg • ss Playboy Dec ’57
- 508 • The Cure • Robert Bloch • ss Playboy Oct ’57
- 513 • Revolution Below the Belt • John Clellon Holmes • ar Playboy Aug ’64
- 530 • Puppet Show • Fredric Brown • ss Playboy Nov ’62
- 539 • The Short-Short Story of Mankind [“We’re Holding Our Own”] • John Steinbeck • ss Lilliput Nov ’55
- 545 • Punch • Frederik Pohl • ss Playboy Jun ’61
- 550 • Hallucinogens: A Philosopher’s Visionary Prediction • Aldous Huxley • ar Playboy Nov ’63
- 560 • The Love Philtre • Jerome Weidman • ss Playboy Jan ’60
- 576 • Brother Endicott • James Thurber • ss Playboy Dec ’62
- 589 • The Love Cult • Alfred Kazin • ar Playboy Mar ’62
- 598 • An Actor’s Life for Me • Philip Roth • nv Playboy Jan ’64
- 622 • Foul Ball • Max Shulman • ss Playboy Dec ’59
- 627 • All Through the Night • Nelson Algren • ss Playboy Apr ’57
- 638 • Good Blonde • Jack Kerouac • ss Playboy Jan ’65
- 650 • The Dark Music • Charles Beaumont • ss Playboy Dec ’56
- 662 • Mortmain • Graham Greene • ss Playboy Mar ’63
- 672 • Playboy Interview: Martin Luther King • Playboy • iv Playboy Jan ’65 [Martin Luther King]
- 706 • Moonlight over Whattapoppalie • Larry Siegel • ss Playboy Aug ’60
- 717 • Just Like the Girl • James Jones • ss Playboy Jan ’58
- 726 • Papa and the Playwright • Kenneth Tynan • ar Playboy May ’64 [Ernest Hemingway; Tennessee Williams]
- 733 • Meeting with Hemingway • Evgeny Evtushenko • pm Playboy Jan ’63
- 735 • Advice to a Young Man • Ernest Hemingway • ar Playboy Jan ’64
- 745 • The Deadly Halls of Ivy • Paul Goodman • ar Playboy Sep ’64
- 761 • Tell Me the Reason, Do • Ken W. Purdy • ss Playboy Jan ’62
- 778 • I Remember Babylon • Arthur C. Clarke • ss Playboy May ’60
- 788 • On Being a Managerial Misfit • Vance Packard • ar Playboy Jan ’64
- 799 • The Courting of the Muse • P. G. Wodehouse • ar Playboy Jan ’62
- 803 • The Distributor • Richard Matheson • ss Playboy Mar ’58
- 818 • The Real Lady Chatterley • Harvey Kurtzman • ss Playboy Feb ’60
- 823 • Everybody Hates David Starbuck • Steve Allen • ss Playboy Dec ’58
- 829 • Playboy Interview: Vladimir Nabokov • Playboy • iv Playboy Jan ’64 [Vladimir Nabokov]
- 847 • The Goofy Girls • Robert Paul Smith • ar Playboy Aug ’57
- 851 • The Conflicting Ideologies of East and West • Bertrand Russell • ar Playboy Jan ’64
- 856 • The Vacation • Ray Bradbury • ss Playboy Dec ’63
- 864 • How To Be a Jewish Mother • Dan Greenburg • fa Playboy, 1964
- 875 • Index of Authors • Misc. Material • ix
- The Best American Short Stories 1988 ed. Mark Helprin & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin, 1988, tp); [DKL]
- ix • Publisher’s Note • Anon. • ms
- xi • Introduction: The Canon Under Seige • Mark Helprin • in
- 1 • Banana Boats • Mary Ann Taylor-Hall • ss The Paris Review, 1987
- 29 • Cats and Students, Bubbles and Anysses • Rick Bass • ss Carolina Quarterly, 1987
- 40 • Way to the Dump • E. S. Goldman • ss Atlantic Monthly Dec ’87
- 57 • Still Life with Insects • Brian Kiteley • ss Fiction, 1987
- 64 • Police Dreams • Richard Bausch • nv Atlantic Monthly May ’87
- 81 • The Water-Faucet Vision • Gish Jen • ss Nimrod, 1987
- 91 • Dédé • Mavis Gallant • ss New Yorker Jan 5 ’87
- 105 • The Natural Father • Robert Lacy • ss Crazyhorse, 1987
- 121 • Snares • Louise Erdrich • ss Harper’s May ’87
- 132 • Errand • Raymond Carver • ss New Yorker Jun 1 ’87
- 145 • Inn Essence • Ralph Lombreglia • nv Atlantic Monthly Jul ’87
- 170 • Entrechat • Edith Milton • nv The Kenyon Review, 1987
- 191 • The Taming Power of the Small • Will Blythe • ss Epoch, 1987
- 207 • Waiting for Trains • Richard Currey • ss North American Review, 1987
- 217 • Wonderland • C. S. Godshalk • ss The Iowa Review, 1987
- 233 • No Friends, All Strangers • Lucy Honig • ss AGNI Review, 1987
- 250 • Smorgasbord • Tobias Wolff • ss Esquire Sep ’87
- 265 • Still Life • Marjorie Sandor • ss Georgia Review, 1987
- 274 • Victoria • Hilding Johnson • ss Story Quarterly, 1987
- 285 • Helping • Robert Stone • ss New Yorker Jun 8 ’87
- Breaking into Print: Early Stories and Insights into Getting Published ed. DeWitt Henry (Beacon Press 0-807-06235-9, May 2000, $16.00, 256pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- The New Millennium Reader (3rd Edition) ed. Stuart & Terry Hirschberg (Prentice Hall 0130979910, Mar 2002, $49.00, 716pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Introduction: Reading in the Various Genres • Stuart & Terry Hirschberg • in
- • 1. Reflections on Experience
- • Nonfiction
- • Number One! • Jill Nelson • ar
- • Boyhood with Gurdjieff • Fritz Peters • ar
- • West with the Night • Beryl Markham • ar
- • Initiated into an Iban Tribe • Douchan Gersi • ar
- • Confessions of a Fast Woman • Lesley Hazelton • ar
- • So, This Was Adolescence • Annie Dillard • ar
- • The Myth of the Latin Woman • Judith Ortiz Cofer • ar
- • Fiction
- • The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • The Miller’s Tale • Jerzy Kosinski • ss
- • Poetry
- • The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock • T. S. Eliot • pm
- • Sonnet 30: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought • William Shakespeare • pm
- • The Solitary • Sara Teasdale • pm
- • Funny • Anna Kamienska • pm
- • 2. Influential People and Memorable Places
- • Nonfiction
- • Liked for Myself • Maya Angelou • ar
- • My Father’s Life • Raymond Carver • ar
- • Antidisestablishmentarianism • Gayle Pemberton • ar
- • My Brother, Gary Gilmore • Mikhal Gilmore • ar
- • The Taj Mahal • P. D. Ouspensky • ar
- • Niagara Falls • William Zinsser • ar
- • Reflections in Westminister Abbey • Joseph Addison • ar
- • Moonlit Nights of Laughter • Fatima Mernissi • ar
- • Fiction
- • Reunion • John Cheever • ss
- • Looking for a Rain God • Bessie Head • ss
- • Poetry
- • The Youngest Daughter • Cathy Song • pm
- • Those Winter Sundays • Robert Hayden • pm
- • Composed Upon Westminster Bridge • William Wordsworth • pm
- • 3. The Value of Education
- • Nonfiction
- • Learning to Read and Write • Frederick Douglass • ar
- • The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society • Jonathan Kozol • ar
- • Civilize Them with a Stick • Mary Crow Dog • ar
- • On Becoming a Chicano • Richard Rodriguez • ar
- • In Defense of Elitism • William A. Henry, III • ar
- • How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students’ Research Papers • David Rothenberg • ar
- • Areopagitica: Defense of Books • John Milton • ar
- • Speech Codes on Campus • Nat Hentoff • ar
- • Fiction
- • The School • Donald Barthelme • ss New Yorker, 1974
- • Poetry
- • Learning to Read • Francis E. W. Harper • pm
- • Workday • Linda Hogan • pm
- • 4. Perspectives on Language
- • Nonfiction
- • Language and Thought • Susanne K. Langer • ar
- • The Day Language Came into My Life • Helen Keller • ar
- • Thinking in Pictures • Temple Grandin • ar
- • The Language of Clothes • Alison Lurie • ar
- • Sex, Lies, and Conversation • Deborah Tannen • ar
- • The Rhetoric of Advertising • Stuart Hirschberg • ar
- • Propaganda under a Dictatorship • Aldous Huxley • ar
- • Pornography • Margaret Atwood • ar
- • Fiction
- • What We Talk About When We Talk About Love • Raymond Carver • ss
- • Poetry
- • Crow Goes Hunting • Ted Hughes • ar
- • Drama
- • Words, Words, Words • David Ives • pl
- • 5. Issues in Popular Culture
- • Nonfiction
- • The Culture of Consumerism • Juliet B. Schor • ar
- • On Bad Teeth • Slavenka Drakulíc • ar
- • TV News as Entertainment • Neil Postman & Steve Powers • ar
- • Urban Legends “The Boyfriend’s Death” • Jan Harold Brunvand • ar
- • The Flesh and the Devil • Kim Chernin • ar
- • Want Creation Fuels Americans’ Addictiveness • Philip Slater • ar
- • The Burden of Race • Arthur Ashe • ar
- • The Stealth Virus: AIDS & Latinos • Ann Louise Bardach • ar
- • Fiction
- • Désirée’s Baby • Kate Chopin • ss, 1893
- • An Old Man • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- • Poetry
- • Barbie Doll • Marge Piercy • pm
- • Lisa’s Ritual, Age 10 • Grace Caroline Bridges • pm
- • Streets of Philadelphia • Bruce Springsteen • pm
- • Drama
- • Tea Party • Betty Keller • pl
- • 6. Our Place in Nature
- • Nonfiction
- • The Lowest Animal • Mark Twain • ar
- • Am I Blue? • Alice Walker • ar
- • A Very Warm Mountain • Ursula K. Le Guin • ar
- • Big Mac and the Tropical Forests • Joseph K. Skinner • ar
- • How to Kill an Ocean • Thor Heyerdahl • ar
- • Waking Up the Rake • Linda Hogan • ar
- • The Greenhouse Affect • P. J. O’Rourke • ar
- • Fiction
- • I Am a Cat • Natsume Soseki • ss
- • A River Ran Over Me • Lin Sutherland • ss
- • Poetry
- • Sleeping in the Forest • Mary Oliver • pm
- • The Sound of the Sea • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • pm
- • 7. History in the Making
- • Nonfiction
- • The Naked Source • Linda Simon • ar
- • Finding the Tomb • Howard Carter • ar
- • To Make Them Stand in Fear • Kenneth M. Stampp • ar
- • From a Native Daughter • Haunani-Kay Trask • ar
- • The San Francisco Earthquake • Jack London • ar
- • R.M.S. Titanic • Hanson W. Baldwin • ar Harper’s Jan ’34
- • A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima • John Hersey • ar
- • Fiction
- • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13, 1890
- • Home Soil • Irene Zabytko • ss
- • Poetry
- • A Worker Reads History • Bertolt Brecht • pm
- • Child’s Memory • Eleni Fourtouni • pm
- • Titanic • David R. Slavitt • pm
- • 8. The Pursuit of Justice
- • Nonfiction
- • Rights of Man • Thomas Paine • ar
- • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl • Harriet Jacobs • ar
- • I Have a Dream • Martin Luther King, Jr. • ar
- • We Have Our State • Golda Meir • ar
- • At the Center of the Storm • Rae Yang • ar
- • Daisy • Luis Sepulveda • ar
- • Fiction
- • The Guest • Albert Camus • ss Atlantic Monthly Dec ’57
- • The Censors • Luisa Valenzuela • ss
- • Poetry
- • The Unknown Citizen • W. H. Auden • pm The Listener Aug 3 ’39
- • At First I Was Given Centuries • Margaret Atwood • pm
- • Drama
- • Protest • Václav Havel • pl
- • 9. The Impact of Technology
- • Nonfiction
- • A Clone Is Born • Gina Kolata • ar
- • Sperm in a Jar • Anne Taylor Fleming • ar
- • Identical Twins Reared Apart • Constance Holden • ar
- • Monsters of the Brave New World • Carol Gruenwald • ar
- • How Not to Use the Fax Machine and the Cellular Phone • Umberto Eco • ar
- • The Haves and the Have-Nots • LynNell Hancock • ar
- • The Road Ahead • Bill Gates • ar
- • Fiction
- • The Enormous Radio • John Cheever • ss New Yorker May 17 ’47
- • Poetry
- • When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer • Walt Whitman • pm, 1865
- • I’m Gonna Be an Engineer • Peggy Seeger • pm
- • 10. The Artistic Impulse
- • Nonfiction
- • How to Write with Style • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • ar
- • Still Just Writing • Anne Tyler • ar
- • What Is Real? • Alice Munro • ar
- • The Exorcist Massage Parlor • Wilson Bryan Key • ar
- • Mick Jagger, Sexuality, Style & Image • Sheila Whiteley • ar
- • The Paradox of St. Mark’s • Mary McCarthy • ar
- • Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle • Lance Morrow • ar
- • General Nguyen Ngoc Loan (photo) • Eddie Adams • il
- • Fiction
- • The Tatooer • Junichiro Tanizaki • ss
- • Poetry
- • The Author to Her Book • Anne Bradstreet • pm
- • Tell It Slant • Emily Dickinson • pm
- • In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See • Lawrence Ferlinghetti • pm
- • The Third of May 1808 • Francisco Goya • il
- • 11. Matters of Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion
- • Nonfiction
- • The Myth of Immortality • Clarence Darrow • ar
- • Did a Barnyard Schism Lead to a Religious One? • Dinitia Smith • ar
- • Slaughter of the Innocent • Hans Ruesch • ar
- • Lifeboat Ethics • Garrett Hardin • ar
- • The Prisoner’s Dilemma • Stephen Chapman • ar
- • If I Die in a Combat Zone • Tim O’Brien • ar
- • Salvation • Langston Hughes • ar
- • Fiction
- • The Country of the Blind • H. G. Wells • nv The Strand Apr ’04
- • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Epoch Fll ’66
- • Parables
- • The Allegory of the Cave • Plato • ms
- • Parables in the New Testament • Anon. • ms
- • Parables of Buddha • Anon. • ms
- • Islamic Folk Stories • Nasreddin Hodja • ar
- • Poetry
- • The Road Not Taken • Robert Frost • pm
- • Hope • Lisel Mueller • pm
- • Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night • Dylan Thomas • pm
- • The Second Coming • W. B. Yeats • pm The Nation Nov 6 ’20
- • Credits • Misc. Material • ms
- • Index of Authors and Titles • Misc. Material • ix
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