DEAR MR ANDREWS
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"DEAR MR ANDREWS"- IS A SERIES OF MASOCHISTIC MISSIVES ADDRESSED TO AN UNLIKELY CRUSH. WE COULD CALL IT A MEMOIR WITH PICTURES BUT MIND VOMIT IS A TRUER TERM. ASIDES FROM CHAOTIC, IT'S A CRITIQUE OF SUGAR-DATING CULTURE AND A CALL TO ARMS IN FAVOUR OF SEX WORKERS' RIGHTS.
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I’ve long since felt that there’s strength in weakness. Over the past 6 or 7 years, I’ve been in and out of sex work, leading a civvy life and a smutty one in parallel. I began journaling about some of my experiences: some were funny, some were liberating, some were challenging and often not for the reasons people might project them to be. During this time I met Mr Andrews, who is effectively a John who didn’t pay, purely bad business on my part. I felt lightly exploited or at least confused at how I’d ended up giving out sexual favours, on weekdays, to married men for free. So, I began to tell him about my life. Almost every day I message him quite candidly about the ins and outs of escorting, of dating, of discos, and my day job. And in doing so, I’d go as far as to say we have become perverse pen pals.
p.s. It got featured in The Guardian, I'm not even lying.
"Some of our best-loved books are never what they purport to be. Cooking in a Bedsitter (1961) is more than a collection of recipes, just as Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996) is less than a quest for self-improvement. I would say something similar of Dear Mr Andrews (2023), which is neither an epistolary nor a confessional but a Millennial’s epic journey through the precarious landscape of the 21st century’s geo-digital economy.
Written in swift, clear-eyed prose, Latham’s wry, insightful narrator is an erotic ethnographer who has managed to convince this late-born Boomer that if you can’t be honest, at least be true. An important distinction, one that harkens back to de Sade and returns to us generationally through writers like Colette, Anaïs Nin, Angela Carter and Tamara Faith Berger. I would respectfully add Lotte Latham to that list. Dear Mr Andrews is a remarkable debut."
Michael Turner
Author of "The Pornographer's Poem"
"A titillating, absurdist and dangerous screed on sex work, which, in her own words, is what that keeps Latham sane. I will add: stone cold lucid. Latham divulges the truth of female recklessness with her real treat of a mind. Dear Mr. Andrews is sweet and bitter and perfectly baked, cutting the lines between sugar babying, escorting and civilian work in a turbulent loop of righteousness."
Tamara Faith Berger
Author of "Maidenhead", 2012 “The Believer Book Award” winner
"In an absolute act of submission this playful, hilarious, candid book dares to lay things bare for our entertainment. Highly recommended."
Susanna Kleeman
Author of Twice