Red Emma’s

In the winter of 2014, writer and sex worker Charlotte Shane sent out her first confessional letter to a small but devoted mailing list. In the months that followed, readership grew to over 5,000 subscribers who followed her candid, unstinting, sometimes heartbreaking meditations. Word spread quickly, garnering the project recognition from outlets such as The Washington Post and NPR.  The resulting 57 letters constitutes a thoughtful serial memoir about love, sex, money, and identity—how those forces can break us, and how they can make us whole again.