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Quan, bestselling author of novels Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl and Diary of a Married Call Girl has just released the third book in the Diary series, Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl. The books are the outgrowth of a popular column Quan authored on Salon.com. Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl is being developed into an HBO comedy series, to be written and produced by Darren Star. Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl is a funny, erotic (mis)adventure, detailing the escapades of married hooker ?Nancy? as she travels to sunny Provence to escape New York's financial uncertainty and recapture her independence. Her separate worlds are about to collide in a disastrous, unthinkable manner, causing her to question everything she knows. Quan's books are being published in 14 languages and 15 countries. In addition to the Guardian and Salon, Quan has written for Cosmopolitan, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Globe and Mail, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and the South China Morning Post. Her Guardian column has looked at sexual themes in the battle over the Statue of Liberty, religious themes in atheism, and the role of pimp chic in the U.S .elections. A member of PONY (Prostitutes of New York), Quan, a resident of Manhattan, is frequently invited to speak about issues affecting the sex industry. She has appeared on Larry King Live, The Early Show (CBS), The O'Reilly Factor, The Montel Williams Show, Inside Edition, The Situation with Tucker Carlson, Court TV, and many other local or national shows throughout the U.S., Canada, Sweden and France. Her radio interviews include The Alan Colmes Show, New York & Company, Eye on Books with Bill Thompson, NPR, BBC and CBC. This will be her second appearance on News Talk Online. Quan also appears at the Sex Worker Literati Friday November 7, 2008 at 7 PM at Manhattan?s KGB bar. She will be joined by David Henry Sterry and Elisabeth Eaves for a three-way. Reading that is! Followed by a discussion where all your burning questions about the industry will be answered.

Former prostitute turned author and journalist Tracy Quan isn't so sure that there's an increase in sex addiction as a result of the economic downturn. In fact, she's not so certain what the term sex addiction actually means. Quan's comments came during her appearance today on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com. Invited to discuss a recent article in the New York Daily News that concludes that there's an increase in sex addiction among those who work on Wall Street as they attempt to compensate for the frustrations they feel as a result of the economic downturn. Quan wonders if some sexual activities that one might consider normal are considered by another to be addictive. Some callers agreed, noting that, whenever there's an economic downturn, recreational activity, like, for example, going to the movies, increases, as people try to escape the bad news of their realities. But at least one caller was offended by the suggestion that sex, especially paid for sex, is a proper diversion from life's problems. Quan talks more about the subject of sex addiction in her latest column in the online edition of the Guardian of London. Quan's latest book, a novel, Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, was just released.