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Brittany Newell

Biography

Brittany Newell

Brittany Newell is a writer and performer whose work has been published in Granta, n+1, The New York Times, Joyland, Dazed and Playgirl. She published her debut novel, OOLA, at the age of 21. She lives in San Francisco.

Brittany Newell

Books by Brittany Newell

by Brittany Newell - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Ruth is lost and living with her ketamine dealer ex-boyfriend Dino, overdosing on television and regretting her master’s degree. When she starts dancing at a strip club, she becomes the seductress Baby Blue. Plunged into this swirling underworld of beauty, fast cash and secrets, Baby’s grip on reality begins to loosen. She is sure she can handle it, until one autumn morning when Dino disappears without a trace. Thus begins a nocturnal quest for the one she still loves, through dive bars, bus depots and the BDSM dungeon where she takes a part-time gig. Along the way, she meets Simon, a recluse who pays her for increasingly bizarre favors; a philosophizing suicide fetishist named Nobody and Emeline, the beautiful and balletic new hire who reminds Baby of someone...