Melissa Febos, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.99 (278p) ISBN 978-0-312-56102-4
Febos's candid, hard-slogging debut about her four years working as a dominatrix at a midtown Manhattan “dungeon” cuts a sharp line between prurience and feminist manifesto. Having grown up on Cape Cod, Mass., then dropped out of...
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Melissa Febos. Bloomsbury, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-63286-657-8
Febos’s (Whip Smart) second memoir is part lovesick devotional and part meditation on the intersection between desire and identity. She outlines the progression of a doomed relationship in exquisitely romantic detail (“Her mouth the soft nail on...
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Melissa Febos. Bloomsbury, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-63557-252-0
Febos (Abandon Me) recounts her traumatizing adolescence in eight revealing essays. As she writes in the introduction, “I was a happy child. The age of ten or eleven... marked a violent turn” in which the harsh realities of true “girlhood” began....
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Melissa Febos. Catapult, $16.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-64622-085-4
Memoirist Febos (Girlhood) assembles four whip-smart essays on the power of personal writing, which mark her “attempts to describe the ways that writing is integrated into the fundamental movements of my life: political, corporeal, spiritual,...
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Melissa Febos. Knopf, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-53723-7
“At the age of thirty-five, it was time to meet myself unmediated by romantic and erotic obsession,” writes memoirist Febos (Body Work) in the opening pages of this bold account. After two decades of moving from one relationship to the next, with...
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