"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Melissa Febos tried to tell this story before. The author of four (soon to be five) published memoirs, ...

Readers unfamiliar with the work of Melissa Febos might mistake The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex ...

After jumping from one relationship to the next, Melissa Febos found herself in bed with a woman she scarcely knew. “Though I stubbornly tried to prove otherwise, for me, sex without chemistry or love ...

I suppose I’m in the middle of a kind of midlife crisis, both parents dead, on the brink of what I believe will be marriage, fairly new to my own queerness, working a variety of wonderful and weird ...

Talking about sex is still taboo. Talking about not having sex? Maybe even more so. Melissa Febos didn't go into her year of celibacy planning to write about it. The memoirist, known for "Girlhood," ...

For her entire adulthood, Melissa Febos went from one relationship to another, shaping her life around each new partner’s needs and desires. At the age of 35 she decided she needed a break. On today's ...

On this episode of “Literary Arts: The Archive Project,” we bring you an event from the 2022 Portland Book Festival, which took place on Saturday, November 5, 2022. The hour is split into two halves ...

Melissa Febos is the author of four books, including the nationally bestselling essay collection, “Girlhood,” which is a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist and won the National Book Critics Circle Award ...

Melissa Febos is the writer we need right now. Her writing is alternately a balm, a barricade and a bombastic refusal to remain mired in shame. The essays in her bestselling collections “Girlhood” and ...