Playboy's Annual Writing Awards
January, 1972
The Selection of any prize winner requires an arbitrariness that vexes both the judges and the judged. For the editors of Playboy, the task of singling out the best works to have appeared in the magazine during the past 12 months was an especially difficult one. The process of assessing is primarily that of comparison, but because so many of our articles, essays, major works of fiction, short stories and humorous pieces were, in 1971, one-of-a-kind experiences, they stubbornly resisted compariso...
