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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…

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

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

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

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

Author Melissa Febos joins Morning Joe to discuss her new book 'The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex'.

An excerpt from “The Dry Season” by Melissa Febos

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Toni Morrison’s famous comment on writing, one I sometimes put at the top of my syllabi, is this: “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then y…

Febos’s life flourished while taking a year off sex and dating. In a new memoir, The Dry Season, she explores the allure of romance

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Choosing celibacy? No problem. Read these eight divinely erotic books curated by the author who is making "hot nun summer" a thing.

After reading "The Dry Season," the bracing new memoir by Melissa Febos, Emily Ratajkowski called the author to talk about sex, seduction, and Sally Rooney.

“Only Melissa Febos could convince us of the ecstasy of abstinence. She never fails in her candor and precision.” —Katherine May

If you like your beach reads with a dose of truth, pack these PEOPLE-approved nonfiction summer books for your next vacation.

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