"My body could wither in an instant, extinguished, a streak of smoke in the air." From "Bye, Baby," a Pride 30 highlight by @melissafebos.bsky.social. 🌈 buff.ly/Wei7elu
Melissa Febos
@melissafebos.bsky.social
Author of five books—next up The Dry Season 6/3/25 Thoughts my own and not representing any institution. https://linktr.ee/melissafebos melissafebos.com https://www.prairielights.com/pre-order-dry-season-june-2025-prairie-lights-0
21st annual Valentine’s Day mix, much belated (and yes, I’m leaving Spotify): open.spotify.com/playlist/19I...
Valentine 2026: This Is the Day
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Today on the program, Part 1 of my annual round-up of the 10 most-listened-to episodes of the year. Big thanks to everyone who guested and everyone who listens. 🎄Part 2 - Christmas Day. 🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts. ✌🏼Stay tuned....
Happening now! For today only - you can get my WYS course at a steep discount! No code needed - just add the course to your cart on my website and hit purchase <3 www.margosteines.com/write-your-s...
creative writing course — MARGO STEINES CREATIVE
self paced creative writing class
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THIS FRIDAY (11/28) - you can get the core or coached versions of my Write Your Story course at a discount! No code needed - simply add the course to your cart on my website and hit purchase anytime on 11/28 to apply the discount <3 MargoSteines.com/Write-Your-Story
Join us tonight at 7 pm for a double feature reading by @melissafebos.bsky.social and @donikakelly.bsky.social!
@melissafebos.bsky.social comes out swinging in her essay “Nothing is Gayer than My Love for Women’s Basketball.” I wasn’t fully prepared to have the collection begin with such storytelling awesomeness.
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.
Ah, I’m so glad!
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!
Honored to be in this year’s anthology!
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
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...
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.
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
Personally would love to hang w @halaayala.bsky.social in the sun
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
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?": magazine.catapult.co/how-to/stori... #amwriting #amtranslating #freelancelifestyle #writingcomminity
Do You Want to Be Known For Your Writing, or For Your Swift Email Responses?
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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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"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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"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 electricliterature.com/melissa-febo...
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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Great to chat with @melissafebos.bsky.social on the podcast. Enjoy a coffee-stained quote card, a CNF Pod original!
"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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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.
Cambridge TONIGHT @melissafebos.bsky.social + @alexanderchee.bsky.social
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.
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.
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@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!)
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
Folks in LA please be careful and refer to this guide for protest gear from Hong Kong’s 2018 anti-extradition protest, in case you need some helpful, well-tested gear suggestions against heavily armed police that are liberal with tear gas.
At @memoirland.bsky.social I spoke with the one and only @melissafebos.bsky.social AND she took The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire. memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...
Got to chat with @melissafebos.bsky.social and we had a pretty sweet jam sesh, not gonna lie, friend. Listen wherever you get your pods, and be sure to check out the beefy shownotes. brendanomeara.com/episode-472-...
🎉 @melissafebos.bsky.social bringing inspiration and joy (remember those things?!) to @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social #THEDRYSEASON
'The best year of my life': How 12 months of celibacy changed the course of writer's life
Author Melissa Febos joins Morning Joe to discuss her new book 'The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex'.
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