“What if We Could Fall in Love All Over Again?” An Interview with Brittany Newell - Chicago Review of Books

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“What if We Could Fall in Love All Over Again?” An Interview with Brittany Newell - Chicago Review of Books

Brittany Newell’s San Francisco is a city charged with magic and mania where every person on the steep, foggy, moonlit streets is one kiss, one thrust, one slap away from bridging the education gap, wealth gap, or any other gap they’re interested in filling. In her second novel, Soft Core, semi-single twenty-seven-year-old Ruth – eager to assume the shape of whatever container can hold her – transforms into Baby when she’s dancing at the strip c…