Fiction editor?

[Peggy Wilkins]

I remember reading some time ago that PLAYBOY had let go of fiction
editor Alice Turner; but what I hadn't realized was that there is no
longer any named fiction editor.  Today I went looking down the
masthead to see who was responsible for fiction and found--no one.  It
seems that the last issue with this position listed was way back in
May 2001.

I am left to wonder how any high quality general magazine can get by
without a fiction editor.  Isn't this a problem?  So who is recruiting
and reviewing the fiction then?  Does this mean that those at PLAYBOY
have made a deliberate decision that fiction is no longer of
sufficient importance to the magazine to warrant its own editor?

I just have to wonder how anyone could have made a decision like that.
It's headed in a direction that is antithetical to what PLAYBOY has
always been.

Peggy Wilkins
mozart@lib.uchicago.edu