There were lots of fantastic pieces that we just couldn’t fit into the anthology, but we’re happy to be able to share some with you here in the Tales of the Trade section of our site. Lilycat has a few pieces in the anthology, but here’s one we didn’t have room for! BY LILYCAT – [...]
Meet, Pay, Love by Toni Bentley of the New York Times writes about Hookers, Hos, Call Girls, and Rent Boys. Read the full review here. “From the unappealing title, you might think this is a truly trashy paperback. Far from it: it’s an eye-opening, occasionally astonishing, brutally honest and frequently funny collection from those who [...]
Hosted by Audacia Ray Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City Thursday, September 3. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10 21 and up – FREE Portion of proceeds from the bar supports $pread Magazine Sex Worker Literati is a new free monthly performance series that features sex workers, [...]
From a review by Chris Estey called Scribes Sounding Off: Speaking of people with low social status, the rock life has often been financed by people in really challenging occupations, from supportive girlfriends of guitar players to sweet souls like my own writing mentor in pre-hardcore NW punk days, who was lead singer in the [...]
Annie Scott interviewed Candye Kane at Sex Worker Literati on August 6. Read the whole piece on Tonic. Here’s an excerpt: Tonic: So after you were a phone sex operator, you got into pin-up modeling. Did they make size a big issue back when you got started? Candye Kane: Yeah, well, I was one of [...]
A fantastic review of our book on the Barnes & Noble website. Thank you! Sterry and Martin have managed to bring together a crazy quilt of essays, and work the fabric of the anthology into a rich tapestry. Their successful collaboration initially grew out of workshops conducted at SAGE (Standing Against Global Exploitation) and came [...]
HOOKERS AND SEX WORKERS are known for their artifice in the world of pleasure, but the title of a new book written by those who play for pay is 100 percent perfunctory: Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money and Sex.This isn’t a sexy title—it sounds about as exciting [...]
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The launch of our monthly reading series in New York City was a smashing success – Happy Ending was so packed that people were sitting on the floor. If you weren’t there, you missed out on some great stories! But lucky for you, we’re consummate documentarians, so there are both photos and videos. Here is [...]
There were lots of fantastic pieces that we just couldn’t fit into the anthology, but we’re happy to be able to share some with you here in the Tales of the Trade section of our site. Berta Avile contributed a story, Cynthia, to Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys – but you’ll have to [...]
