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The host introduced the novel as a story set in SanFrancisco's divebars, strip clubs and BDSM dungeons, and later praised it as a good read. The author and host also discussed how much of it was fiction versus drawn from real life and quoted a passage from the book.
Her newest novel, Softcore, takes the reader into San Francisco's underworld of dive bars, strip clubs, and BDSM dungeons, where tech bros, executives, and outcasts live out their fantasies.
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Episode: A Dominatrix/Writer Takes Readers Into A Dungeon
The host introduced the novel as a story set in SanFrancisco's divebars, strip clubs and BDSM dungeons, and later praised it as a good read. The author and host also discussed how much of it was fiction versus drawn from real life and quoted a passage from the book.
Her newest novel, Softcore, takes the reader into San Francisco's underworld of dive bars, strip clubs, and BDSM dungeons, where tech bros, executives, and outcasts live out their fantasies.
I really enjoyed your book. It was such a good read.
And I want to know, first off, how much of Softcore is fiction and how much of it is based on real life?
Did I feel simpatico with the clients whose names and birthdays I can still recite to this day, Pledge of Allegiance style? Tim, 101075, Pascal, 6969. The oldest client I can remember was born in 1939. All I know, in fact, is this. Men are dying to be let in on the secret pleasures of girlhood. They feel cheated out of ease and glamour. Friend kisses and hushed gossip. Heterosexuality is defined by a longing for wholeness. Terror undergirds desire.
Brittany Newell's new book is titled Softcore.