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In Brittany Newell’s new novel, Soft Core (out Feb. 4 via Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a sex worker searches for her missing ex-boyfriend in San Francisco’s kinky underbelly. Though it’s about a ...

After publishing her first novel when she was 21, Brittany Newell started working as a dominatrix. The job gave her time to write — and plenty of material to draw from. Her new novel is Soft Core.

Take Brittany Newell’s second novel, Soft Core, for instance. As Ruthie – also known as the stripper Baby, also known as the dominatrix Miss Sunday – volleys from her home to the club and into the ...