With all their focus on domestic issues, the U.S. media have been utterly negligent in reporting American job loss abroad. I’m talking, of course, about the recent firing of “sexpat” and Internet personality Deirdre Dare from her job at a Moscow law firm. For those readers who haven’t been keeping up with the London Daily Telegraph’s excellent coverage, we are here to brief you.

Dare, 43, is an American lawyer living in Moscow. But like so many of us, her job is not her true passion. She has two: writing, and having casual sex with European businessmen. Last week her employer, Allen & Overy, told her she had to stop adding chapters to her novel, Expat: A Weekly Serialized Novel About Life in Moscow, which opens with the protagonist having sex with a married European businessman. The firm was concerned that clients might see or hear about the novel and get it confused with reality, especially since four of the fictional characters had the same first names as Dare’s real-life coworkers.

Dare agreed to stop work on the novel, but days later she was fired for “gross misconduct.” She claims it’s because she and her boss kissed at a party and he became “hostile” afterwards, telling her to start looking for another job. But our gossip feed says it went a little more like this: Dare got the boss alone in a room with her, kissed him, and then came out and told the rest of the partygoers that the two of them had had intercourse. She has since filed a sexual harassment suit, but in the meantime has accepted a job writing a column called “Sexpat” for a Russian newspaper.

Now that you are up to speed on these matters, we encourage you to visit Deirdre’s website, where the unfinished novel, along with poetry, personal bits of wisdom and photos of the author wearing a polka-dot negligee are available for perusal. And if you want to read translated excerpts from “Sexpat,” in the future, we suggest you bookmark Readrussia.com.

‘Sexpat’ lawyer who published online erotic novel sacked from City firm [Daily Telegraph]

Magic circle lawyer told to stop writing online erotic novel [Daily Telegraph]