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     Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
http://www.observer.com/2009/daily-transom/holy-lolita-hefner-hoovers-first-seri al-rights-nabokovs-last-novella So he must be turning in his grave. Money-money-money | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Fahrenheit 451 was first published as a 3 part serial in issues 2,3 and 4 of Playboy so they can be a home for good literature. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I thought Playboy had a long-standing reputation for publishing good fiction - didn't quite a few of the classic pulp writers sell their work to the mag? | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
They've printed Stephen King and Dan Simmons, at the very least. Besides, I don't think Nabakov would mind: some of the girls in there are Lolita's age, I suspect. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
Point being not that Nabokov is appearing in playboy- the magazine is supoosedly one of the hardest and best paying markets- rather that Nabokov did not wish to have his novella published in the first place- anywhere. I don't think Simmons got a story published in playboy- I think I read somewhere that he always wanted to. (but not sure.) | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
And off topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS90V8BQGo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs%2Esuntimes%2E com%2Febert%2F2009%2F07%2Fi%5Fam%5Fa%5Fbrainiac%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.227.90.149 |
Karim, I assure you Simmons had a story in Playboy. It was the one and only time I've ever bought it. Anna Nicole Smith was the centerfold (back when that meant something). | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.227.90.149 |
Just looked it up. "Dying in Bangkok" it was. 1993. Reprinted later in "Love/Death" | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.236.187.163 |
Nabokov published his comic ghost novella "The Eye" (which I've recently read)in 1965 in Playboy where it "pleasantly weaved its way through three installments . . . ." | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
Merci Simon- you are right of course- and I wasn't sure if Simmons had a playboy story- which he did then. Now we just need him to spend less time talking about Israeli tank generals and why Obama is going to destroy the world. |