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SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF 2001 BY
Entertainment Weekly Interviews with Lily and Extended Reviews: Taking it all off -- Lily Burana talks about what makes a great stripper, which men make the best customers and which songs to play when you're getting naked. By Suzy Hansen, Salon, October 9, 2001 Live! Nude! Feminism! -- interview for Borders Books. By Jessica Jernigan Girly-Q Q&A for Girl Posse. Extended Reviews: The Ultimate Extended Review for Salon.com by Charles Taylor From the Bay Area's Sex Biz Authority, The Spectator, by David Steinberg Girl Posse Brings It On Review Excerpts:
"If Lily Burana stripped as well as she writes, I can imagine sitting at the tipping bar, watching her happily for hours. But like a stunning exotic dancer that leaves you wanting more, "Strip City" is over much too soon. Neither bloodless sociology nor a kitsch celebration, "Strip City" marks the debut of a roadside lyricist."
"Candid,juicy, streetwise prose. Burana has the storyteller's gift." "Engaging...profound and funny.
The book is riveting and makes a fine contribution to the current culture wars over exotic dancing. Smart, entertaining, and sharply written... Burana is a shrewd, amused and honest participant-observer in the strip club underworld, and hers is the best in a recent crop of books by former sex workers." "What a provocative book...this quest doesn't smack of gimmickry." "A colorful, often funny and always thought-provoking examination. Burana does a masterful job...with the kind of easy, intelligent style that makes other writers envious." "An insider's look at what goes on inside the clubs that employ roughly 250,000 young women. Burana isn't satisfied with simply stripping and telling. She examines the ways that an involvement with the sex trade has affected her own life and the lives of other women, the psychic price that is paid for the considerable rewards that are gained, and come(s) to terms with her past. Her search for answers is always entertaining." "Funny, ardently Americana, and intelligent." "Burana (has) enormous talents as a writer‹she has a good ear, a fine wit and an instinct for storytelling. Burana exposes herself with pride, style and a great sense of humor." "Remarkably well-done: a complex and warm insider's take on a booming industry." "An artful expose." |