Honored to be in this year’s anthology!

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.

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

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

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

"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!

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

"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...

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

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

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

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

@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

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

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

A terrific interview @melissafebos.bsky.social. I’m looking forward to reading the book.

Listen to @melissafebos.bsky.social on The Feminist Present with @adriandaub.bsky.social and Laura Goode this morning and PHWOOF (in the best way). Brilliant conversation, recommended it immediately to my husband, AND it unlocked part of an essay I was in the middle of! episodes.fm/1517251918/e...

Loved talking with @melissafebos.bsky.social about her sexy thoughtful celibacy book for @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/melissa-febo...

"My life had always more or less functioned as a treat-based economy." (49) Reading The Dry Season by @melissafebos.bsky.social Feeling seen 😳

Loved talking to you, @estelletang.bsky.social

Take a peek at this compelling interview with Professor @melissafebos.bsky.social in @theguardian.com about her new book "The Dry Season" which explores themes of love, sex, dependency and celibacy. www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

Hey, @vanityfair.com (specifically @keziahweir.bsky.social) thinks you should read SEARCHES this summer: one of "the best books to kick off your summer reading," along with books by @melissafebos.bsky.social, @stephenking.bsky.social, and others! www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

This book is out TODAY! I put my whole heart into it. You can buy it wherever you buy books. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725681...

I rounded up my favorite books for your Hot Nun Summer over at @marieclairemag.bsky.social www.marieclaire.com/culture/book...

I think this is one of my most favourite episodes of The Shift podcast ever. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @canongate.co.uk @melissafebos.bsky.social

Brilliant! 🔥🔥🔥 Emrata talks with @melissafebos.bsky.social about THE DRY SEASON for Interview Mag! 🔥🔥🔥

Happy first day of Pride, friends! ✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️

My event on June 10 at The Strand is sold out but there are a few tickets left for the Brooklyn launch with Leslie Jamison at Public Records via Books Are Magic: www.eventbrite.com/e/offsite-me...

🎉 In THE DRY SEASON, @melissafebos.bsky.social “connects her own romantic life to that of women throughout history — including 11th-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen, Virginia Woolf and Octavia Butler —

🎉🎉🎉 👋 @melissafebos.bsky.social THE DRY SEASON & Peter Orner THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST’S DAUGHTER! Thank you @katekilla.bsky.social & @bostonglobe.com 📚 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/a...

Congrats @melissafebos.bsky.social on her new memoir! Melissa's one of our earliest Letter to a Stranger contributors and has been a beloved guest author at our courses. For a full OA lovefest, catch her book tour w fellow OA contributors @lucaswmann.bsky.social in Providence & Leslie Jamison in BK.

“I think I’d like to be a kestrel. I think that’s what people imagine I’m like after they read me. But I’m more like a raccoon. You know, just digging through your trash. When you turn on the lights, they put up their little paws." - @melissafebos.bsky.social #memoir www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/s...

🙌 The @nytimes.com excerpts @melissafebos.bsky.social THE DRY SEASON: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/m...

You don’t even know if that’s your girl until you take them to a WNBA game

Thessaly La Force came to Iowa to talk to me about The Dry Season & wrote about it for the NYT Style section, which is very strange and nice: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/s...

This game is shaving years off my life and it’s only May

Just finished STAG DANCE by @torreypeters.bsky.social — hot damn that was a funny, devastating, beautiful, entirely original work of art.

I’m teaching a virtual craft seminar tonight but the twist is gonna be that we just watch the Liberty game together via zoom screen share

“Mixing feminist history and personal essay, The Dry Season explores what @melissafebos.bsky.social, a serial monogamous dater since her teens, learned about sex, love, and art by finally putting herself first.” Thank you @time.com! 💥💥💥 time.com/7287373/book...

🙌 Here comes @melissafebos.bsky.social THE DRY SEASON (thanks @nytimes.com) 💥💥💥 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/b...

A real list written by real journalists! Also: 👋 @melissafebos.bsky.social THE DRY SEASON 06.03.25 www.vulture.com/article/new-...