Source: Anothermag.com
USA – Author and professional dominatrix Brittany Newell discusses her new novel Soft Core – a ghostly, feverish love story that unfolds in the city’s sex dungeons and strip clubs.

Brittany Newell’s new novel, Soft Core, is not a mystery or a thriller. The San Francisco author is fairly adamant about that. At its heart, it could be read as a love story, but there is also something more spectral – and intangible – lurking in its pages. As a writer, Newell may be one of the finest contemporary purveyors of “vibes”, and in Soft Core, this sensory poeticism transports us to the depths of San Francisco’s erotic underground. It is a ghostly world of make-believe, of sex dungeons and strip clubs, where danger looms like “asbestos” and no one is quite what they seem. “It is not a mystery, but is mysterious,” Newell says, speaking to me over Zoom. “Critics might say it was all vibes, no plot. And yeah, I love it: all vibes, no plot.”
