Occasionally I like to do a Google search for myself and see what comes up. It’s a little intimidating to find out how seemingly all over the ‘net I am, but half of those hits are my own doing–this blog, my Facebook page, my MySpace page, and a lot of web sites I signed up …
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I’m excited about my recently published article in Jacques magazine, “The Art of Deception.” This piece examines the history of the courtesan, focusing on three historical eras when courtesan culture really flourished: ancient Greece and Rome, Renaissance Venice and fin-de-siecle Paris. I loved researching this piece. Some of the texts I found were privately published …
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Another belated discovery: my book was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection (4/10/09)! I’m thrilled that Susan Dominus is such a fan. That day she also talked up “The Forbidden Apple” on “New York Times Close Up,” a weekly TV show hosted by Sam Roberts, the editor of the New York Times Book Review, …
I was chosen as one of GO Magazine’s “100 Women We Love” in the June/July 2009 issue! Writer Cheryl Burke had this to say: “While doing research for an earlier book project on former New York City Mayor Giuliani’s quality-of-life campaign, Long saw some interesting patterns. ‘I began researching Giuliani’s policies regarding adult-use establishments — …