The Playboy Diaries

Christina Hendricks: (Joan) from Mad Men

At the Morning News this morning, Jessica Francis Kane interviews her mother who used to work for Playboy as a secretary.  It's a lovely read.  Do check it out.  Here's the introduction:

For years I’ve known that my mother lived in New York City in the early 1960s and was a secretary before she married my father. Recently I was reminded that she’d worked at Playboy magazine. She said I knew this—how had I forgotten? This was Playboy at its peak, when it was an intellectual magazine as well as a pinup, when people really did subscribe to it for the articles. But it was also when the Playboy Clubs were ridiculously popular and Nora Ephron was told that “women don’t write at Newsweek.” I pictured my mom in a tight sweater typing away, wishing the world would change. Was this right? She agreed to an interview and the following conversation occurred by email over the course of several days.

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Article via Feministing.