Playboy Interview: James A. Michener

September, 1981

Playboy Interview: James A. MichenerEons and eons and eons ago, before there was land to make mud pies or plastic to turn into Frisbees, before there was water to make instant coffee, before there was Earth itself—the third planet in the solar system, which revolves around the star we call the sun—there was the primordial nothingness of space, as virgin and pure as a newborn's bottom. And out of that vast infinity of emptiness came a beginning. And in the beginning was the Word.Who spoke the wor...