Germaine Greer: Playboy Interview (1972)
A candid conversation with the ballsy author of "The female Eunuch"
Playboy Interviews
Every Playboy interview in the Scraps archive -- decades of long-form conversation with directors, writers, musicians and public figures, in their own words.
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Hunter Thompson: Playboy Interview (1974)
A freewheeling conversation with the outlaw journalist and only man alive to ride with both Richard Nixon and the Hell's Angels
Anne Rice: Playboy Interview (1993)
A candid conversation with the author of The Vampire Chronicles about sex and violence, gays and bloodsuckers, and her helpful fans from the…
Stephen King: Playboy Interview (1983) – By Eric Norden
In the early winter of 1972, a Maine housewife dusting her husband's makeshift study fished a discarded manuscript out of the wastebasket and…
Martin Luther King Jr.: Playboy Interview (1965)
In January 1965, Playboy published Alex Haley’s interview with the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., shortly after King received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jean-Paul Sartre: Playboy Interview (1965)
A candid conversation with Jean-Paul Sartre, the charismatic fountainhead of existentialism and rejector of the Nobel prize.
Interview with Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut (1992) – By Carole Mallory
Carole Mallory interviews Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller for Playboy magazine in 1992. The article was titled “The Kurt and Joe Show.”
Vladimir Nabokov: Playboy Interview (1964)
Few authors of this generation have sparked more controversy with a single book than a former Cornell University professor with the resoundingly Russian…
Truman Capote – Playboy Interview (1968)
“Wealthy Farmer, Three of Family Slain: H.W. Clutter, Wife and Two Children Are Found Shot in Kansas Home.” The UPI dispatch below this…
Kurt Vonnegut: Playboy Interview (1973)
A candid conversation with the ironic author of "Slaughterhouse-five"