Playboy After Hours

April, 1957

Question: how does an author dream up a title for his new book? Answer: he usually doesn't. Instead, he excerpts some hoary quote from a nearby Bartlett's and affixes it to his tome. Thus, we have had in the past such lifted, and uplifting, book monickers as For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Grapes of Wrath, among several thousand others. We think we've spotted a fresh titling trend among contemporary authors: to ignore the classical quotes and dip instead into the wellspring (or cesspool) of eart...