NY Times Sunday Book Review Thinks My Writing is Good

Uh, so, that anthology I contributed to? Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys? It’s the cover of the New York Times Sunday Book Review this weekend, August 23rd.

And my piece? It gets a prominent mention.

Here’s what reviewer Toni Bentley says about my piece, “Hot Flush of Cash and Lust”:

Audacia Ray, who now teaches human sexuality at Rutgers University, certainly earned her degree out in the field, having at one point paired up with a woman named Lily as a massage team offering happy endings. “Money got us hot and bothered,” she writes, and one evening, after Lily cashed a disability check from the federal government for $10,000 (she had no bank account, of course), she poured the money — “mostly $20 bills” — onto the bed. They shut off their phones, bathed together, got “very, very high” and then rolled around “naked in the cash. . . . Even now, when I think of the hottest sex we had, I think about currency stuck to her flesh.” Now there’s an image to promote the beneficence of Uncle Sam.

Pretty sweet.

And here is a video of me reading excerpts from the story at Rachel Kramer Bussel’s In The Flesh reading series last week.