Playboy Sticks to its Literary Roots with Nabokov Serial

ontinuing on its tradition of publishing good literature alongside shots of scantily clad women, Playboy recently acquired the first serial rights to Vladimir Nabokov’s last and unfinished novel.  Nabokov’s intentions were to have the novel burned, not published, but Dmitri, his only surviving heir, had other plans.  Apparently Playboy’s literary editor Amy Grace Lyod won the rights by sending orchids to Andrew Wylie, Nabokov’s literary agent, in reference to the novel Ada, another one of Nabokov’s novels serialized in Playboy during the 1960s.  You know what else helped?  Lots and lots of money.