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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 19/06/2026

"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

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Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

21st annual Valentine’s Day mix, much belated (and yes, I’m leaving Spotify): open.spotify.com/playlist/19I...

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Valentine 2026: This Is the Day

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Brad Listi @bradlisti.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

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....

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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

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...

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self paced creative writing class

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Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 05/11/2025

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a double feature reading by @melissafebos.bsky.social and @donikakelly.bsky.social!

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GW @gwoltjer.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

@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.

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Brad Listi @bradlisti.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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 · 03/09/2025

Honored to be in this year’s anthology!

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Ann Tashi Slater @anntashislater.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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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Jenny Yacovissi @jbywrites.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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.

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Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Ahhh thank you so much ♥️♥️♥️

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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

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

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

"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!

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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, PhD @janajm.com · 24/06/2025

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 · 18/06/2025

"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...

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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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Brendan O'Meara @brendanomeara.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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 · 16/06/2025

"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

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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 · 10/06/2025

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
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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

@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!)

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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.

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Sari Botton @saribotton.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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...

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Brendan O'Meara @brendanomeara.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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-...

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 05/06/2025

In this excerpt from Melissa Febos’s (@melissafebos.bsky.social‬) memoir “The Dry Season,” Febos explores her relationship with pleasure and convinces us of the ecstasy of abstinence. buff.ly/n43eYXt

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My First Lover Was the Bathtub Faucet - Electric Literature

An excerpt from “The Dry Season” by Melissa Febos

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 05/06/2025

Happy hardback publication day to these wonders! LIFE CYCLE OF A MOTH – Rowe Irvin THE DRY SEASON – @melissafebos.bsky.social THE SEXUAL EVOLUTION – @nathanlents.bsky.social THE ACID QUEEN – Susannah Cahalan THE DEATH OF SHAME – @ambroseparry.bsky.social buythebook.online/out-today

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