"Thy Neighbor's Wife"

May, 1980

Gay Talese's forthcoming book about sex in America, "Thy Neighbor's Wife," is already a blockbuster--a sure best seller, a major event in Hollywood--and clearly the year's big book. It's also likely to be a bench mark for the decade, and future works on the topic will continually be compared with Talese's. Because of our own interest in the subject, Talese is the subject of this month's "Playboy Interview." And because we're in Talese's book, we went outside for a detached im...