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For the 124th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes writer and sex worker advocate Antonia Crane. Antonia is the founder of Strippers United (formerly Soldiers of Pole), the author of the sex work memoir Spent, and a current Ph.D. candidate at USC. As you may know from the recent episode with Velveeta of the newly unionized Star Garden strippers in North Hollywood, California, they were hugely inspired by the Lusties of the Lusty Lady in San Francisco. The Lusties were the first strippers to successfully unionize in the U.S., back in 1997. And the Star Garden dancers also got assistance from Strippers United. Antonia Crane has been involved in both of these efforts. She was one of the original co-founders of Soldiers of Pole (now Strippers United), and she helped inspire this whole new generation of activist strippers. This is part two of a two-part series. The last episode was part one, featuring an interview with Antonia from 2019, and this episode contains a follow-up interview conducted in 2023, with a lot more backstory on Antonia's experience at the Lusty Lady in the 90s. For more from today's guest, Antonia Crane: Follow Antonia on Instagram @antoniacrane Follow Antonia on Twitter @antoniacrane Check out the Strippers United website strippersunited.org Psst, Courtney has an OnlyFans, which is a horny way to support the show: onlyfans.com/cocopeepshow Private Parts Unknown is a proud member of the Pleasure Podcast network. This episode is brought to you by: Dipsea is an audio erotica app full of short, sexy stories and guided sessions designed to turn you on. Dipsea is offering a 30-day free trial when you go to dipseastories.com/private. https://linktr.ee/PrivatePartsUnknownAds If you love this episode, please leave us a 5-star rating and sexy review! —> ratethispodcast.com/private  Psst... sign up for our Private Parts Unknown newsletter for bonus content related to our episodes! privatepartsunknown.substack.com Let's be friends on social media! Follow the show on Instagram @privatepartsunknown and Twitter @privatepartsun. Connect with host Courtney Kocak @courtneykocak on Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the 123rd episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes writer and sex worker advocate Antonia Crane. Antonia is the founder of Strippers United (formerly Soldiers of Pole), the author of the sex work memoir Spent, and a current Ph.D. candidate at USC. We've covered sex worker labor rights a lot on this podcast, and today, I'm sharing a pivotal interview with Antonia Crane from 2019 that helped start it all. As you may know from the recent episode with Velveeta of the newly unionized Star Garden strippers in North Hollywood, California, they were hugely inspired by the Lusties of the Lusty Lady in San Francisco. The Lusties were the first strippers to successfully unionize in the U.S., back in 1997. And the Star Garden dancers also got assistance from Strippers United. Antonia Crane has been involved in both of these efforts. She was one of the original co-founders of Soldiers of Pole (now Strippers United) and she helped inspired this whole new generation of activist strippers. This is part one of a two-part series. Tune in next week for Antonia's 2023 interview. For more from today's guest, Antonia Crane: Follow Antonia on Instagram @antoniacrane Follow Antonia on Twitter @antoniacrane Check out the Strippers United website strippersunited.org Psst, Courtney has an OnlyFans, which is a horny way to support the show: onlyfans.com/cocopeepshow Private Parts Unknown is a proud member of the Pleasure Podcast network. This episode is brought to you by: Dipsea is an audio erotica app full of short, sexy stories and guided sessions designed to turn you on. Dipsea is offering a 30-day free trial when you go to dipseastories.com/private. https://linktr.ee/PrivatePartsUnknownAds If you love this episode, please leave us a 5-star rating and sexy review! —> ratethispodcast.com/private  Psst... sign up for our Private Parts Unknown newsletter for bonus content related to our episodes! privatepartsunknown.substack.com Let's be friends on social media! Follow the show on Instagram @privatepartsunknown and Twitter @privatepartsun. Connect with host Courtney Kocak @courtneykocak on Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Summer school is officially in session, Bleeders! Today's instructor is Antonia Crane, author of Spent. Follow Antonia on Instagram @antoniacrane and Twitter @antoniacrane. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW BLEEDERS YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR FULL-LENGTH INTERVIEWS. https://www.youtube.com/@bleederspodcastWelcome, writers and book lovers. The Bleeders is a new podcast about book writing and publishing. Make sure you subscribe to the companion Substack: https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcomeThe Bleeders is hosted by Courtney Kocak. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @courtneykocak. For more, check out her website courtneykocak.com.Check out Courtney's new podcast, Podcast Bestie, based on her popular Substack: https://pod.link/1670457783Subscribe to the newsletter: https://podcastbestie.substack.com/welcomeHey writers, wanna start a podcast? Courtney's got you covered with her upcoming five-week class for Roadmap Writers starting July 26th. She'll help you strategize and get started from premise to recording to editing and beyond. You'll leave with a trailer and marketing/launch plan to meet your objectives. Sign up for Creating Your Podcast: https://www.roadmapwriters.com/products/creating-your-podcast

It's an issue that's seldom discussed, but the identity of sex workers and their battle for workers' rights are being brought into the mainstream with the help of books and films. Two authors who have written very personal accounts about the subject join Eve Jackson in the studio. Poet, novelist and artist Leila Mottley's debut novel is a New York Times bestseller. She was only 19 when her book "Nightcrawling" was published and she's the youngest writer to be selected for Oprah Winfrey's book club. Meanwhile, the author, activist and sex worker Antonia Crane's memoir is called "Spent". It's been described as bold, brash, brutal and beautiful.

This week, Rex is on with writer, director, SW, Sagittarius and overall badass Antonia Crane, who you can find out more about here https://www.antoniacrane.com/ and you can collect her books here https://www.antoniacrane.com/pandemic-peep-show/ and here https://www.amazon.com/Spent-Memoir-Antonia-Crane/dp/1942600860 !! Support Antonia y'all! And a huge thank you to @aphexphotostudios who sponsored this week's episode! You can always book an astrological session with me, HERE !! I love each and every one of you, always, all ways!! xoRex

Oui, nous sommes en Novembre, et alors ? La rentrée littéraire est officiellement passée, mais les livres sont toujours bien présents et méritent de sortir de la temporalité que leur impose une vision marketing. Retrouvez une sélection 100% perso parmi les centaines de livres qui sont sortis pour l'occasion : Sortis des bois de Chris Offut. Gallmeister Consumées d'Antonia Crane. Editions Tusitala Vent blanc Noir cavalier de Luke Rhinehart. Aux Forges de Vulcain Satisfacation de Nina Bouraoui. Editions JC Lattès

On this edition of The PEN Pod, we kick off our series of conversations with our Emerging Voices fellows and their mentors, starting with M. Kiguwa and her mentor Antonia Crane. They talk about how mentorship has changed amid the pandemic and what the next generation of writers might bring to the table. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/support

This is the fourth episode in our 5-show series produced in collaboration with The Black Sex Worker Collective. On July 22nd, the collective will host a 22-hour event called Who’s Allowed To Make Money? Workers In Solidarity, to support sex workers and other freelance artists directly impacted by COVID-19. Starting with Episode 115, each weekly episode up until the event will feature some of the many performers and activists who are scheduled. You can catch up on this series, and all of our episodes, at anytime on sexcompod.com. The stigma of sex affects many things and the treatment of sex workers is but one example. Sex workers face discrimination, prosecution and an absence of basic labor rights. As we approach the close of this series, I hope these interviews have created awareness and inspired not only compassion, but supportive action as well. Today’s interview is with Antonia Crane and AM Davies, two members of Soldiers of Pole, a Stripper Union Movement. During the July 22nd fundraiser, Soldiers of Pole will host Strippers Unite; a performance and Q&A about organizing and strippers in the midst of a pandemic during an uprising. In this episode we discuss the lack of labor rights facing sex workers in the U.S., visions for a better future, misconceptions about the work, and some personal details about our guests.Event information:Tickets / Info: Black Sex Workers Collective 22-Hour Fundraiser EventTickets to the Soldiers of Pole Event: Strippers Unite — Performance and Q&AGeneral information:The Black Sex Worker CollectiveSome information about the fight for Sex Worker rights:https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/04/sex-workers-struggle-survive-covid-19-pandemichttps://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/07/why-sex-work-should-be-decriminalizedMore information about today's guests and their personal projects:Soldiers Of Pole WebsiteAntonia Crane WebsiteAM Davies Website

For the 15th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra take you inside Raising Hell, a super sexy & informative event thrown by Soldiers of Pole, the California exotic dancers union that we featured in our very 1st episode! We get into the passage of California labor bill AB5, why strippers need the same protections & workers’ rights as other physically demanding jobs, the fact that sex work is work, how to undo the industry’s long-time stigma, the dope community these dancers have created for themselves & the isolation a lot of strippers experience when they 1st start out — plus, Jacq the Stripper tells a hilarious story about auditioning for strip club owners & so much more! All hail the following queens for lending us their voices & stories: Jacq the Stripper jacqthestripper.com Antonia Crane antoniacrane.com AM Davies instagram.com/thequeenofsexy Selena the Stripper instagram.com/prettyboygirl (& check out her podcast Heaux in the Kneaux)  Megan Therese Rippey (aka Reagan) instagram.com/meganrippey Coco Ono instagram.com/coco.ono Onyx Black instagram.com/onyxblackdance Valerie Stunning valeriestunning.com Here are some links to help educate yourself further: Of course, make sure you follow Soldiers of Pole on Instagram @soldiers_of_pole_ and check out their website soldiersofpole.com. This is the radio story Courtney did on AB5 for KCRW, featuring Antonia Crane of Soldiers of Pole. And a more recent update on the status of AB5, as of September 2019. Private Parts Unknown is a proud member of the Pleasure Podcast network. This episode is brought to you by: BlueChew offers men a performance enhancement confidence boost for the bedroom. If you like sex, you’ll love BlueChew. Get your first order — just pay $5 shipping — when you use promo code PRIVATE at bluechew.com. Manscaped, #1 in men’s below the belt grooming. Manscaped offers precision-engineered tools for you or your man’s family jewels.  Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code PRIVATE at Manscaped.com.  Dipsea is an audio erotica app full of short, sexy stories and guided sessions designed to turn you on. Dipsea is offering a 30 day free trial when you go to dipseastories.com/private. If you love this episode, please leave us a 5-star rating & sexy review! xo

Bretts speaks with Antonia Crane Of Soldiers Of Pole union for sex workers! // Independent Contractors Have No Rights // Sex Worker Not Prostitute // Giving Up 70% Of Your Tips // Unregulated Shit Show // Comics & Sex Workers // Keep up with Antonia on twitter - @antoniacrane Learn more about Soldiers Of Pole and how to support them at https://soldiersofpole.com/ Street Fight Mail - P.O Box 82306 Columbus, OH 43202 Street Fight Radio Call In Show - (614) 655-3887 Intro music by Txger Vppercvt

We talk with Reese Piper, a professional stripper, writer, and journalist reporting on sex work, labor rights, and autistic culture. We talk about Reese’s life, her childhood and schooldays, her love of books and getting lost in her imagination. We talk about being different, about going off to college, and we talk about Reese’s long path to realizing that she was autistic, and about how she came to terms with that while working as a dancer. We also talk about the labor politics of strip clubs and what we can do to show support for our fellow workers in the sex industry.    Additional links/info below... Reese's Twitter page and author page on Medium Reese Piper, Narratively, "Secret Life of an Autistic Stripper" Reese Piper, The Establishment, "Strip Club Raids and Closures Are Weapons of Gentrification"  Antonia Crane, Lenny Letter, "Stripped Bare" Antonia Crane, Mel Magazine, "The Most Realistic Sex-Worker Portrayals in Pop Culture, According to Sex Workers" Samuel Braslow, LA Magazine, "L.A.'s Exotic Dancers Are Launching a Labor Movement" Susan Elizabeth Shepard, Vox, "It's International Whores' Day. Let's Talk About Why Strippers Need Better Labor Laws" We Are Dancers (WAD) USA  Desiree Alliance  SWOP - USA    Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Traveling in Stereo, "What I Know" The Impossebulls, "HaveNots Mascot Revolution (SureShot Remix)"

For the 1st ever episode of Private Parts Unknown, your favorite commuter companions – Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra – are honored to welcome the badass stripper-activists – Antonia Crane, Domino Rey & Naomi Amadeo – behind the newly-formed California Exotic Dancers Union, Soldiers of Pole.  First: Your bestie hosts wax nostalgic about their recent trip to Helsinki, Finland. It was the best experience ever & we can't wait to share what we learned in future episodes, but for now, we just give you a lil taste. ;) Then: The Soldiers of Pole give us the scoop on their brand-spankin' new strippers' union, how they all met, the Dynamex California Supreme Court case that confirmed their classification as employees vs. independent contractors, their supportive Strip Talk series, the impact of SESTA/FOSTA, how the stigma & shame surrounding sex work complicates the unionization effort, reports of exploitation by club owners from the front lines: forged paychecks, contracts that force dancers to sign away their rights, bribery, intimidation, retaliation & other classic union-busting techniques, tips from Antonia's recent MEL Magazine article "A Regulars' Guide to What Happens When Your Favorite Strip Club Unionizes" & of course, info on tonight's Wildcat Strippers' Strike outside Crazy Girls Hollywood! ***SUPPORT THE CALIFORNIA EXOTIC DANCERS UNION, SOLDIERS OF POLE, FOR THEIR WILDCAT STRIKE TONIGHT, FRIDAY 2/22, FROM 9PM-12AM OUTSIDE OF CRAZY GIRLS IN HOLLYWOOD.*** For more Soldiers of Pole: website soldiersofpole.com  Instagram @soldiers.of.pole, @antoniacrane, @dominoinla & @naomi_amadeo If you love this episode, please leave us a 5-star rating & sexy review! xo

If our other episodes were debaucherous, this one is just downright nasty! From alcohol to drugs to cheating grooms to wild bridesmaids - people really leave it all out on the table when it comes time to the Bachelor party. Before you’re confronted with the drudgery of married life, the universe has granted you one final hurrah - and you best not mess it up. Go balls to the wall. Go head over heels. You don’t want to regret NOT leaving it all on the line with your best friends, no rules, and a few credit cards yet to be maxed out. And on this episode, Giulia & Selena speak with Antonia Crane, stripper and author of "Spent," who tells them what REALLY happens at Bachelor Parties. Then, a Bachelorette Party at a sex resort? And, as always, we spill secrets from the set of Bridezillas. Don’t tell your partner! Your secret is safe with us. It’s time for Bachelor Party Blowout! --- SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS TODAY! CONNECT W/ WE TV ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER for updates on the show, behind-the-scenes action, and opportunities to be a part of the Bridezillas podcast! www.facebook.com/WEtv/; (@WEtv) Visit the Bridezillas website: www.wetv.com/shows/bridezillas CALL the Bridezillas Hotline at 347-746-9702. PLEASE SEND YOUR CRAZIEST BRIDEZILLAS STORIES TO BRIDEZILLASPODCAST@GMAIL.COM FOR A CHANCE TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW!

Author, teacher, and sex worker advocate Antonia Crane joins MariNaomi and Myriam Gurba to discuss queer flavors, allies, first kisses, and trolls.

“I’m really interested in stories where the sex worker doesn’t die and end up in a garbage bag.” Antonia Crane was one of the women working at the Lusty Lady when they made their historical unionization. Now she has cowritten a script called The Lusty based on her experience. Tina caught up with her during a trip to LA to talk about Westward and their favorite sex work writers. Antonia Crane is a performer, 2-time Moth Story Slam Winner and writing instructor in Los Angeles. She has written for The New York Times, The Believer, The Toast, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, Salon.com, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, DAME, The Los Angeles Review, Quartz: The Atlantic Media, Medium.com, Buzzfeed and dozens of other places. Her screenplay “The Lusty” (co-written by Transparent director, writer Silas Howard), based on the true story of the exotic dancer’s labor union, is a recipient of the San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant in screenwriting, 2015. She is at work on an essay collection and a feature film. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"The freaks were at the Lusty. They wanted to be seen. They were shoving zucchinis up their asses and tying themselves into pretzels They were wearing santa hats and coming in as a gang of clowns and all jerking off together. Does it come from shame?” When Tina was in LA, she dropped by writer Antonia Crane's place to dig into some questions about erotic shame. Why are people so attached to their own erotic shame? Can sex help you overcome the power that shame holds over you? Do we NEED shame for sex to be fun? Whats the difference between liberation and hedonism in feminist sex positive culture? Should we harness shame and make it our bitch? Antonia Crane is a performer, 2-time Moth Story Slam Winner and writing instructor in Los Angeles. She has written for The New York Times, The Believer, The Toast, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, Salon.com, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, DAME, The Los Angeles Review, Quartz: The Atlantic Media, Medium.com, Buzzfeed and dozens of other places. Her screenplay “The Lusty” (co-written by Transparent director, writer Silas Howard), based on the true story of the exotic dancer’s labor union, is a recipient of the San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant in screenwriting, 2015. She is at work on an essay collection and a feature film. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Antonia Crane is a writer, Moth Slam winner, and writing instructor in Los Angeles. She is the author of the memoir, “Spent” (Barnacle Books, Rare Bird, 2014). She has written for The New York Times, Quartz: Atlantic Media, The Toast, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, Salon, and lots of other places. Her screenplay, “The Lusty” co-written with Silas Howard about the Exotic Dancers Union is a recipient of the San Francisco Film Society/ Kenneth Rainin Foundation Screenwriter’s Grant, 2015.  She is at work on an essay collection and a memoir. How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

REALITY BYTES is a new show about sex, love, relationships & dating in the digital age, hosted by best friends Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Rosa Diaz) & Courtney Kocak (writer on Amazon's Danger & Eggs). The twelfth full episode features guest co-host Shadi Petosky helping Courtney interview badass feminist author Antonia Crane about sex work and her memoir Spent. Please rate & review to tell us what you love! (Head to youtube.com/realitybytes for the video version of this episode.)

REALITY BYTES is a new show about sex, love, relationships & dating in the digital age, hosted by best friends Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Rosa Diaz) & Courtney Kocak (writer on Amazon's Danger & Eggs). Twelfth full episode COMING 12/13 with guest co-host Shadi Petosky helping Courtney interview badass feminist author Antonia Crane about sex work and her memoir Spent... but first she answers a listener question about getting back out there. Please rate & review to tell us what you love! (Head to youtube.com/realitybytes for the video version of this episode.)

Antonia Crane meets with Marc Kate for the 38th episode of Why We Listen to listen to and discuss: Suicide – ‘Cheree’ David Bowie – ‘Golden Years (Eric J Lawrence KCRW Remix)’ Babes in Toyland – ‘Hello’ Antonia Crane is a writer, professor and performer in Los Angeles. http://www.antoniacrane.com Listen to the podcast on the […]

The Invaders (Regan Arts)  Please welcome back to Skylight one of our favorite local authors, Karolina Waclawiak!   A searing follow-up to Karolina Waclawiak's critically acclaimed debut novel, How to Get Into the Twin Palms, The Invaders casts a harsh light on the glossy sheen of even the most “perfect” lives in America's exclusive beach communities. The novel centers around Cheryl who has never been the right kind of country-club wife and has always felt like an outsider. Now in her mid-forties—facing the harsh realities of aging and a disintegrating marriage—she feels cast adrift by the sparkling seaside community of Little Neck Cove, Connecticut. When her troubled stepson Teddy moves back home after being kicked out of college, she joins him in an epic downward spiral, just as a storm brewing off the coast threatens to destroy the precarious safe haven crashing down around them. With sharp wit and dark humor, The Invaders exposes the lies and insecurities that run like fault lines through our culture, threatening to pitch bored housewives, pill-popping children, and suspicious neighbors headlong into the suburban abyss. Praise for The Invaders “The Invaders, by the glorious Karolina Waclawiak, is an elegant, ominous book. It's a sharp, witty novel of manners of the most sinister kind. In Waclawiak's expert hands, this novel will have you holding your breath and your heart until the very last word.” —Roxanne Gay, Bad Feminist and An Untamed State “Karolina Waclawiak's The Invaders is the stiffest of literary drinks—it'll jolt your system, and make the world around you glow a little differently when you're done with it. Witty, dark, and honest, this novel tells the hard—but hilarious—truths about aging in America, dysfunctional relationships, and suburban vices.” —Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins “The Invaders is as crisp as they come, hilarious and alarming in equal measure. This book is a time bomb in madras shorts, ready for golf, sex, and natural disasters.” —Emma Straub, The Vacationers and Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures “Karolina Waclawiak's The Invaders is a blazing wonder of a novel. So long limited to satire and parody, the pristine world of the American suburbs become, in Waclawiak's skillful hands, places of tumult, hunger, loneliness and menace. Her heroes are outsiders-on-the-inside and we watch them struggle amid the confinements of their environment and their own complicated histories. As whip-smart and cunning as it is poignant and mysterious The Invaders demonstrates that Waclawiak's masterful debut novel, How to Get into the Twin Palms, was just the beginning.” —Megan Abbott, author ofDare Me “The Invaders is a gut punch of a novel—a scathing look at privileged people trapped by their own choices, but unable to imagine an alternative to their misery. Karolina Waclawiak is a remarkable writer, able to channel the unflinching clarity of Richard Yates, the off-kilter tenderness of Cheever, and taut narrative energy of crime fiction in a voice that is all her own.” —Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers and Little Children “Seamlessly blending literary and genre traditions, Karolina Waclawiak never fails to surprise, delight, and reveal secrets that lesser writers keep hidden. I love her work, and I'm already waiting for the next book.” —Sara Gran, author of Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead “Karolina Waclawiak's The Invaders is a thrilling meditation on the explosive complexities of marriage, identity, and class—all set against the picturesque yet stultifying landscape of small-town Connecticut. Waclawiak is a master at illuminating the secret selves these characters long to keep hidden, and The Invaders is a wonderfully fierce novel, from a brilliant and essential talent.” —Laura van den Berg, author of The Isle of Youth and Find Me “A witty, vicious, and entirely moving portrait of privilege, alienation, and sexual invisibility set in a Connecticut beach community.” —Kate Zambreno, author of Green Girl “How To Get Into The Twin Palms was a mini-masterpiece of atmosphere and mood; a new book is a cause for celebration.” —Emily Gould, author of Friendship Karolina Waclawiak received her BFA in Screenwriting from USC School of Cinematic Arts and her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Her first novel, How To Get Into The Twin Palms, was published by Two Dollar Radio in 2012. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Rumpus, and The Believer (where she is also an editor). She lives in Los Angeles. Antonia Crane is a writer, teacher and Moth Story Slam Winner in Los Angeles. She is the author of the memoir Spent(Barnacle Books/Rare Bird Lit March, 2014). She was featured on Lisa Ling's documentary, “This is Life” recently on CNN. Her other work can be found in Playboy, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Rumpus, Dame Magazine, Salon, PANK magazine, Black Clock, The Weeklings, The Believer, Frequencies, Slake, The Los Angeles Review, The New Black, The Heroin Chronicles and lots of other places. She the CNF editor at Word Riot. She is at work on another memoir about running wild in Bombay, India as a teenager.

Karen Stefano, author of The Secret Games of Words, in discussion with Antonia Crane, author of Spent.

This installment comes from our collaboration with the yearly Litquake Literary Festival. The theme of the evening was brushes with the other side of fame told by Jennifer Longo, Antonia Crane, Caitlin Doughty, Joshua Safran and Owen Egerton along with songs by Frank Portman. Hosted by Arline Klatte & Beth Lisick on October 13, 2014 at the Verdi Club. Recorded by Paula Junn. Mixed by Patty Fung.

Antonia Crane is the guest. Her new memoir, Spent, is now available from Rare Bird Lit / A Barnacle Book.  Kirkus calls it "...revelatory, [an] unapologetic life story of a San Francisco stripper and sex worker. A raw, searing self-portrait." And Stephen Elliott says “Antonia Crane is a gift. Her writing will change how you look at the world.” Monologue topics: new website, re-branding, Mira Gonzalez and Spencer Madsen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Visions: Where the Locals Go by Antonia Crane