Playboy's Annual Writing Awards

January, 1973

In a time when authors can write about virtually anything in just about any style they happen to like--and very often get it published--deciding what is the very best writing of any year is a little hazardous: like having to choose between good meat and good fish... chacun à son goût and all that. The problem is doubly confounding when you have to decide what is the best writing you've published. After all, if you didn't like it, what is it doing in your magazine? But every year we go back and s...