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brad listi @bradlisti.bsky.social · 3d

Today on the program, my guest is @melissafebos.bsky.social, author of THE DRY SEASON: A MEMOIR OF PLEASURE IN A YEAR WITHOUT SEX. @aaknopf.bsky.social

🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, I’m so glad!

Shannon Kelly Donahue @shannonkellydonahue.com · 4d

Just came from @melissafebos.bsky.social's Memoir for the Apocalypse class through Corporeal Writing, and my synapses are firing. A lot of craft talks fall flat for me. Melissa's always get me back into my groove and writing fearlessly. This one in particular hit the spot!

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Sonja Peteranderl @crimewatch.bsky.social · 10d

Fuck Freud.

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Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social · Sep 3

Honored to be in this year’s anthology!

Triumph Books @triumphbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hanif Abdurraqib has curated an extraordinary collection showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports. We're honored to announce this year's featured writers! Pre-order The Year's Best Sports Writing 2025 today: buff.ly/7gs9meT

This year's featured writers:
Lex Pryor
Kim Cross
Frankie de la Cretaz
Melissa Febos
Daniel Ray
Zito Madu
Kaveh Akbar
Devin G. Kelly
Mac Crane
Maitreyi Anantharaman
Nick Hunt
Katie Barnes
Leyton Cassidy
Zack Davis
Helena Gjone
Yousra Samir Imran
Giri Nathan
Amos Barshad
Jamie Nesbitt Golden
Roman Stubbs
Katie Heindl
Mychal Denzel Smith
Lisa Williamson Rosenberg
Imogen West-Knights
Darrell Powell
Simon Akam
James Thomas
Niharika Pandit
Ettore Ewen (Big E)
Peter Flax

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Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social · Aug 27

♥️♥️

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Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thank you!

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Ann Tashi Slater @anntashislater.bsky.social · Aug 18

Melissa Febos is one of the fiercest, most brilliant writers I know, with a gift for seeing straight to the heart of things. I'm grateful for her generous words about TRAVELING IN BARDO. @melissafebos.bsky.social

Out 9/9 from Balance/Hachette! Pre-order: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ann-t...

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Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social · Jul 23

♥️

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Jenny Yacovissi @jbywrites.bsky.social · Jul 21

Why did I love this? "Maybe it’s the juxtaposition of memoir as academic dissertation with memoir as blunt 'can we talk?' observations...Perhaps it’s just that she really knows how to frame and tell a story." My review of @melissafebos.bsky.social THE DRY SEASON in @wirobooks.bsky.social.

Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · Jul 21

There’s nothing dry about the author’s latest offering, and fans are in for a treat. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @aaknopf.bsky.social @jbywrites.bsky.social @melissafebos.bsky.social #Booksky

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Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social · Jul 21

Ahhh thank you so much ♥️♥️♥️

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Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social · Jul 15

Personally would love to hang w @halaayala.bsky.social in the sun

Poets & Writers @pw.org · Jul 15

Two summer books from well-seasoned writers to enjoy in the sun: I’ll Tell You When I’m Home (@avidreaderpress.bsky.social) by Hala Alyan & The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex (@aaknopf.bsky.social) by @melissafebos.bsky.social. #PageOne at.pw.org/PageOne2025x4

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · Jun 30

Also, I can't help recommending yet again @melissafebos.bsky.social 's brilliant essay, "Do You Want to Be Known For Your Writing, or For Your Swift Email Responses?":

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#amwriting #amtranslating #freelancelifestyle #writingcomminity

Do You Want to Be Known For Your Writing, or For Your Swift Email Responses?

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · Jun 26

Seems like a good time to reshare @dalepeck.bsky.social on Andrew Sullivan

Bad Faith | Dale Peck

Andrew Sullivan first showed up on my radar in 1991, an innocuous blip that gave no indication of the full-frontal assault about to be launched on the American left. I was working for OutWeek at the…

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · Jun 23

"Writing is a form of alchemy that gives very bad decisions value in hindsight”

In a new interview, Melissa Febos (@melissafebos.bsky.social‬) speaks to Mauricio Ruiz about her year of celibacy, which is the subject of her new book, "The Dry Season." Check it out below!

Celebrating Intimacy of Self: Mauricio Ruiz interviews Melissa Febos

MELISSA FEBOS <br> At the end of that year, I felt whole. I was ready for the kinds of growing that I could only do in conjunction with another person

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Jana M. Perkins @janajm.com · Jun 24

Calling it now: @melissafebos.bsky.social’s THE DRY SEASON is the book of the summer

A screenshot of text that reads:   “The manner in which I had loved people was a symptom of how I moved through the world and understood my place in it. I had understood one of my life's tasks to be the management of others' perceptions of me. It was my job to attract them and then meet or placate their desires. I had performed this unconscious labor in every realm of social life. I had earned my living that way, my self-esteem, and my physical safety. It defined the silent economy of all my romantic relationships, which insisted that the rest of my life's passions must fit into the space cleared by a lover's satisfaction. My freedom was earned by their contentment. No one in possession of that ruthless part, whose first love was art, could sustain such a dynamic. Eventually, it exhausted me, the relationship collapsed, and I was on to the next. I had not invented it, but I could choose to set it down.”

A screenshot of text that reads: “This all sounds very rational, and the factor that most drove my endeavor was not rational. I felt it in my body like physical hunger, tugging on every cell. It felt biological. A pressure like that of sickness or fatigue. It was a desire that had finally grown stronger than its opposite, but was yet unknown. What did I want when I wanted the absence of something? It wasn't really time or a hob-by. I had no reference for the object of my hunger, and that was a strange condition.

In my quietest moments, on the drive home from work, my body humming as I belted out a song about love, and just before I fell asleep or after I woke, I was just an animal with a past. I sensed how much I didn't know yet. I understood that an animal could be very hungry and not know for what, only in what direction it lay.”

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Quincy Scott Jones @quincyscottjones.bsky.social · Jun 18

"It seems so much easier and sexier to have a big revelation but a big revelation contains no instructions for actual change."
@melissafebos.bsky.social on her new #book THE DRY SEASON

interviewed by @ninasharmawriter.bsky.social via @electricliterature.com

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Melissa Febos on Stepping Outside the Sexual Economy - Electric Literature

“The Dry Season” reframes celibacy as an opportunity to explore pleasure and joy

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ankur thakkar @ankurthakkar.com · Jun 17

hazlitt.net/feature/freq... @melissafebos.bsky.social

Frequency Illusion | Hazlitt

Love was not a drink, and my pursuit of it did not fit perfectly into the rubric of addiction, but it had taken me.

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Brendan O'Meara @brendanomeara.bsky.social · Jun 16

Great to chat with @melissafebos.bsky.social on the podcast. Enjoy a coffee-stained quote card, a CNF Pod original!

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · Jun 16

"I felt so whole and complete, and I do think that that’s part of what qualified me for a different kind of relationship"

Mauricio Ruiz interviewed Melissa Febos (@melissafebos.bsky.social‬) about her new book, "The Dry Season," and her year of celibacy. Check it out below!

buff.ly/kFU0Yjv

Celebrating Intimacy of Self: Mauricio Ruiz interviews Melissa Febos

MELISSA FEBOS <br> At the end of that year, I felt whole. I was ready for the kinds of growing that I could only do in conjunction with another person

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · Jun 10

I’m in conversation with my beloved friend Melissa Febos at Harvard Book Store this Wednesday, 7m, to talk about her stunning new book, The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex. Please join us if you can.

Harvard Book Store presents a discussion featuring Melissa Febos, with Alexander Chee, The Dry Season, a Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex. Melissa Febos author of National Bestselling Memoir Girlhood. Wednesday June 11, 7pm
Harvard Bookstore Cambridge MA Harvard.com

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · Jun 11

Cambridge TONIGHT @melissafebos.bsky.social + @alexanderchee.bsky.social

Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · Jun 10

I’m in conversation with my beloved friend Melissa Febos at Harvard Book Store this Wednesday, 7m, to talk about her stunning new book, The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex. Please join us if you can.

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The Internet's Hazlitt Magazine @hazlitt.bsky.social · Jun 11

We have an excerpt from The Dry Season by @melissafebos.bsky.social up on the site today: hazlitt.net/feature/freq...

Frequency Illusion | Hazlitt

Love was not a drink, and my pursuit of it did not fit perfectly into the rubric of addiction, but it had taken me.

hazlitt.net

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · Jun 10

@melissafebos.bsky.social + Leslie Jamison last night at Books are Magic / Public Records was the best kind of literary pandemonium! NYC: Don’t miss Melissa TONIGHT @strandbookstore.bsky.social with Stephanie Danler! (Even though it says sold out, go…they’ll make room for you!)

Melissa Febos + Leslie Jamison in conversation

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · Jun 10

Happy #PubDay, @sgriest.bsky.social‬! 🖌️

ART ABOVE EVERYTHING, her global exploration of queer, BIPOC, and women artists who discuss the gifts, costs, and redemptive power of pursuing a creative life, is “a deep, moving, radical book.” — @melissafebos.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/y1mJfCw

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Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social · Jun 9

Ahh can’t wait!

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