Playboy Stories: The Best of Forty Years of Short Fiction
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Playboy Stories: The Best of Forty Years of Short Fiction
This anthology edited by Alice K. Turner published by Dutton in 1994 includes 41 stories from Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Tom McGuane, Ursula Le Guin, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and others.
Stories included are Trial of the Warlock by Norman Mailer and "Modern Love" by T. Coraghessan Boyle. "Modern Love" is the story of a man who falls in love with a hygiene fanatic who makes him wear a full-body condom pending the results of a physical.
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- vii • Preface • Alice K. Turner • pr
- 1 • Black Country • Charles Beaumont • ss Playboy Sep ’54
- 21 • All Married Women Are Bad, Yes? • Herbert Gold • ss Playboy Nov ’55
- 33 • A Flourish of Strumpets • Richard Matheson • ss Playboy Nov ’56
- 43 • In a Season of Calm Weather • Ray Bradbury • ss Playboy Jan ’57
- 51 • Just Like a Girl • James Jones • ss Playboy Jan ’58
- 61 • A Fine Son • Roald Dahl • ss Playboy Dec ’59
- 69 • A Great Voice Stilled • Shirley Jackson • ss Playboy Mar ’60
- 77 • The Killer in the TV Set • Bruce Jay Friedman • ss Playboy Aug ’61
- 87 • Brother Endicott • James Thurber • ss Playboy Dec ’62
- 101 • Naked Nude • Bernard Malamud • ss Playboy Aug ’63
- 119 • An Actor’s Life for Me • Philip Roth • nv Playboy Jan ’64
- 143 • Good Blonde • Jack Kerouac • ss Playboy Jan ’65
- 157 • The Manchild • James Baldwin • ss Playboy Jan ’66
- 175 • Where All Things Wise and Fair Descend • Irwin Shaw • ss, 1937; Playboy Feb ’67
- 191 • The Yellow Room • John Cheever • nv Playboy Jan ’68
- 215 • I Am Dying, Egypt, Dying • John Updike • nv Playboy Sep ’69
- 237 • Saul Bird Says: Relate! Communicate! Liberate! • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Playboy Oct ’70
- 259 • The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World • Gabriel García Márquez; trans. by Gregory Rabassa • ss Playboy Nov ’71
- 267 • The Dashing Fellow • Vladimir & Dmitri Nabokov • ss Playboy Dec ’71
- 277 • The Last Carrousel • Nelson Algren • nv Playboy Feb ’72
- 303 • The Conservationist • Nadine Gordimer • ss Playboy Mar ’73
- 315 • Brennbar’s Rant • John Irving • ss Playboy Dec ’74
- 323 • Asking for It • John Collier • ss Playboy Jan ’75
- 333 • Trial of the Warlock • Norman Mailer • nv Playboy Dec ’76
- 371 • The Other • Jorge Luís Borges; trans. by Norman Thomas di Giovanni • ss Playboy May ’77
- 379 • A Party in Miami Beach • Isaac Bashevis & Joseph Singer • ss Playboy Jun ’78
- 391 • White Lies • Paul Theroux • ss Playboy May ’79
- 405 • May I Have Some Marmalade, Please? • Sean O’Faolain • ss Playboy Dec ’80
- 421 • Anna • Andre Dubus • ss Playboy Jun ’81
- 441 • My Mistress • Laurie Colwin • ss Playboy Mar ’82
- 457 • Like a Leaf • Thomas McGuane • ss Playboy Jan ’83
- 471 • Julius Caesar and the Werewolf • John Gardner • ss Playboy Sep ’84
- 489 • Easy in the Islands • Bob Shacochis • nv Playboy Feb ’85
- 511 • The Middleman • Bharati Mukherjee • ss Playboy Apr ’86
- 527 • Yossarian Survives • Joseph Heller • ss Playboy Dec ’87
- 539 • Modern Love • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss Playboy Mar ’88
- 551 • Lucky Pierre in the Doctor’s Office • Robert Coover • ss Playboy Dec ’89
- 563 • Unlocking the Air • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss Playboy Dec ’90
- 575 • Kwoon • Charles Johnson • ss Playboy Dec ’91
- 587 • The Second Bakery Attack • Haruki Murakami; trans. by Jay Rubin • ss Playboy Jan ’92
- 599 • How It Ended • Jay McInerney • ss Playboy Nov ’93
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