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Playboy's Most Scandalous Fiction: Palahniuk, Nabokov, Heller ... Roald Dahl!

First Posted: 09/24/10 07:09 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:50 PM ET

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Playboy playmates generally fit a consistent set of criteria, but the men's magazine is far more varied when it comes to its featured fiction. With an excerpt of Lydia Davis' buzzed new translation of Madame Bovary (out this week) advertised on the September issue's cover as "the most scandalous novel of all time," we decided to take a look back at some of Playboy's most attention-grabbing literary selections.

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Playboy playmates generally fit a consistent set of criteria, but the men's magazine is far more varied when it comes to its featured fiction. With an excerpt of Lydia Davis' buzzed new translation of...
Playboy playmates generally fit a consistent set of criteria, but the men's magazine is far more varied when it comes to its featured fiction. With an excerpt of Lydia Davis' buzzed new translation of...
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Boobuzuela
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10:30 PM on 09/26/2010
Someday SOMEONE will do a news site like Huffpo with a few nakey pictures thrown in. Not just the boobshots HP does, but....real stuff.

It'll be the most popular news site on the web.
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02:15 PM on 09/26/2010
Best thing I did as a college student was give a seminar on knowing that Madam Bovary killed herself before I read it because it was on the back cover. I extrapolated to the notion that a classic is a book you are meant to have read before you've read it and therefore should know the story before you've read it and therefore it has lost some of its charm permanently because older people and publishers are always telling younger people what happens in classics.

I read minor classics these days and I do not even look at the covers or introductions. Reading, not knowing what is going to happen is a different experience from reading and knowing that is going to happen. The notion that knowing is superior as at the heart of intellectual literary snobbery.

I didn't read it.
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Lisa Shields
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10:30 PM on 09/25/2010
Hey people read it for the articles!
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revko
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06:59 PM on 09/25/2010
Playboy had words written in it back then?
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Gregor53
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06:48 PM on 09/26/2010
Of course..."Miss January", "Miss February", "Miss March", ...
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Perry Clease
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08:39 AM on 09/27/2010
Yes, back then the magazine had some excellent articles and short stories. Now that Hugh is no longer running things it has gone down hill in regards to literary content. Also the models these days are generally thinner and with less hirsuteness. My son has a subscription and I often read his copy.
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