Is the truth of sex work finally being told in fiction?

After centuries of male fantasy, female writers such as Rachel Kushner are revealing the reality this job through literary novels Rachel Kushner's new novel, The Mars Room, is named for the strip club where her protagonist Romy Hall dances, and not the prison where she's incarcerated and most of the story takes place. "There isn't any status in it unless you'd be impressed to know that the Mars Room is not a middling or mediocre strip club," Romy tells us, "but definitely the worst and most noto...