Good, an admirable young magazine from the west coast, has just published its first media issue, the highlight of which is its list of the 51 Best Magazines of All Time. ("Best," in their eyes, meaning "Smartest, Prettiest, Coolest, Funniest, Most Influential, Most Necessary, Most Important, Most Essential, etc.")
Well guess what? They have put Playboy in fourth place, in a natty neighborhood preceded by Esquire during the years it was edited by Harold T.P. Hayes (1961–1973), The New Yorker, and Life and followed, no doubt at a respectful distance, by The New York Times Magazine, Mad, Spy, Wired, Andy Warhol’s Interview (between 1969 and the year Warhol died, 1988), and Colors. In their citation of Playboy, Good’s editors wrote "It would be tough to overstate the greatness of a magazine that had Marilyn Monroe as its first centerfold, and Kerouac, Steinbeck, and Wodehouse on call by its fifth anniversary. Launched in 1953 by the grotto-dwelling, robe-wearing Playboy himself, by the 1960s its table of contents was a veritable who’s-who of the best writers of the day and their most compelling subjects. While the magazine has lost its footing as the culturally relevant read for men, its signature "Playboy Interviews" still deliver the kind of no-holds-barred ranting and raving that made it famous. All that, and we haven’t even mentioned the naked girls."
Well said, Good people! For the complete article, go here.
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