The Naked Page Project

July, 2004

The Naked Page ProjectWhat comes after emptiness? Out readers answer the question for the young novelistI don't know what my expectations were when, as part of an essay on emptiness in the 50th anniversary issue of Playboy, I asked readers to rip a page from the magazine and mail it to me. But what I received was so astounding--in quantity, sincerity and imagination--that I now feel a need, a responsibility, to share some of the results.While many readers followed the letter of the instructions...