This morning I received this nice note from Kyler Baldwin Nerison, who is the president of the Mu Sigma Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at the University of Minnesota: “Dear Mr. Malanowski, I just read the “State of the Union” [a shortened version of the first chapter of The Coup] from the July ’07 Playboy that was in the bathroom at my fraternity house and wanted you to know I thought it was one of the best short stories I have ever read. I’m looking forward to picking up The Coup.”
Well, they certainly grow them perceptive out there in Minnesota, don’t they?
Kyler brings up one of the best reasons to write for Playboy: longevity. People talk about articles and stories living forever on the internet, but it’s in the pages of Playboy, preserved in the bathrooms of frat houses and the cellars and attics of other dedicated collectors, where an article remains as fresh and new as the eternally nubile centerfold with whom it shares a contents page.