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Magazines / Short Stories

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any sites? Date: 09-11-2005 By: fudge	Are there any websites reprinting articles from Playboy (sounds like the old joke-i'm wanting to read Playboy for the articles)-I'd love to find Sheps and Shel Silversteins especially-so far, no luck-finding lists of titles but no actual stories-granted i havent explored this site fully yet, maybe theres some here? any help is appreciated.	3

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Date	Member	Message
09-12-2005 ( Reply#: 75 )	sheptapes	Just look in the left column of the Flicklives site for Magazine articles, then go to PLAYBOY!
09-21-2005 ( Reply#: 93 )	lump516	Actually, there was a time when reading Playboy for the articles wasn't a complete joke. I don't think Hefner's interest in the magazine after the first few years actually strayed much beyond the centerfold, but from the late 50's to the early 70's, he hired a series of very smart editors who spent the money necessary to buy material from some very smart and talented people--including Jean Shepherd.
10-12-2005 ( Reply#: 123 )	K3GZ	quote: Originally posted by lump516 Actually, there was a time when reading Playboy for the articles wasn't a complete joke. I don't think Hefner's interest in the magazine after the first few years actually strayed much beyond the centerfold, but from the late 50's to the early 70's, he hired a series of very smart editors who spent the money necessary to buy material from some very smart and talented people--including Jean Shepherd. I was allowed to go backstage at Princeton and spent around two hours listening to Shep after his show. I mentioned that I have alot of Playboys mags from the 60's given to me by a coworker. Shep answered "Didn't he know that they're worth money. Upcoming writers had articles in those issues who are major authors today". In the early 70's I remember going to a local used bookstore near Phila City Hall and going to the magazine section. While the others were looking at the "articles", I was skimming the table of contents and then going to the last page and checking to see if Shep was in the next months edition. I would purchase the issues that Shep wrote in. Thanks to Jim for his great site and to the memory of K2ORS.