The Playboy Reader
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Welcome to the official Playboy Substack.
get some size on you | Scenery Hill, PA native \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf0| columnist for UnHerd, RealClear, Washington Examiner, & The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette + regular contributor to The Ringer, The Paris Review, Men’s Health, &c.| ♉ | 700-pound deadlift most of the time
NYT & Internationally Bestselling Author, Screenwriter and Filmmaker. By the end of this, you'll agree: Diet Pepsi is for murderers.
I'm a Harvard Divinity School graduate, an ex-editor-in-chief, and currently work at a nonprofit in Los Angeles. I like to write about God, gay things, and what happens when God intersects with gay things (which is all the time, obviously).
Chronicler of the radically weird
Magdalene Taylor is a writer and critic of culture and sex, as well as the Senior Editor of PLAYBOY. She has written for the New York Times, GQ, New York Mag, Wall Street Journal, i-D and more. Her bestselling newsletter is called Many Such Cases.
Freelance editor, writer, podcaster, consultant, work expert, and author.
Culture science & politics writer | Publishers Weekly, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Scientific American, Nautilus, Al Jazeera
Author of “My Gaping Masshole.”
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