Jeff Ragsdale (Jeff, One Lonely Guy) produced, shot and edited an “immersion documentary” in which he accompanied Canadian escorts on hundreds of calls over a span of several months. The half-hour film is entitled “30 Nights with a Call Girl.” Millions readers may recall Ragsdale’s work from its mention in our own Sonya Chung’s essay “On Loneliness.”
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If I Were a Boy
“I like a lot of things about being a woman, but there are times and ways it’s a prison, and sometimes I daydream about being out of that prison.” The Guardian has a crack Rebecca Solnit essay about clothing, gender, and of course, mansplaining. Pair with our review of Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby.
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Sally Wen Mao Reimagines Lost Moments
Poet and Oculus author, Sally Wen Mao, discusses art's role in redeeming history and reimagining lost moments and secrets.
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Have Tos and Not Have Tos
Recommended Reading: Scott Timberg on Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman.
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They Really Get Me
For an invigorating jolt of proletarian/genetic bitterness, The New York Times has a “New Victorian” fashion slide show, featuring a selection of gentlemen with admirable bone structure, all in thousand-dollar cutaway coats and plaids and things.
Park Life
Coincident with the release of her new novel, Marie-Helene Bertino published an excerpt in the latest issue of Granta. It features, among other things, a character using the phrase “better-him-than-me kind of park.” You could also read Bertino’s interview with Jessica Gross, which followed the publication of her debut book of short stories.
As one of the escorts who he went on calls with, that refused to sign any contracts after seeing how information and footage where twisted and edited, and who was told this was scrapped and will not be used I am very intrigued to see it is going ahead. What Mr. Ragsdale has forgotten, is not only did he tape us, but we taped him. Including his drunk encounters with canadian police. What about the facebook FBI thing? Jeff, if you see this I hope you know that you have no legal right to use the information, footage, our stories or likeness without our permission. To the person who put up this story, thanks. I need all the documentation I can get. Maybe ask Mr. Ragsdale about the footage we have of him that we might use to counteract him lying to us.