Playboy After Hours

November, 1961

Having nothing better to do, apparently, a novelist friend recently wrote us that he had conceived a foolproof formula for literary success which he believed would revolutionize not only his own less-than-Promethean career, but also the entire world of publishing and belles-lettres. more and better prurience, perhaps? A revival of mid-Victorian ethical values? No. After observing the swift circulation of a Herbert Gold novel among the patrons of a neighborhood booke nooke, he decided that the vo...