Melissa Febos
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AWP 2017 Offsite Event: WRITE TOGETHER, FIGHT TOGETHER
Barrelhouse, Catapult, Lit Hub, and The Rumpus are proud to present WRITE TOGETHER, FIGHT TOGETHER, an AWP 2017 offsite event!
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Where We Go from Here
Warrior up! Begin with small actions, like donating or volunteering, if you’re able.
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AWP 2016 Offsite Event: PICK YOUR POISON—Selling Out Fast!
The Rumpus and Rare Bird proudly present… Pick Your Poison With readings by: Cornelius Eady, Melissa Febos, Rich Ferguson, Erika Krouse, Anna March, and J. Ryan Stradal!
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Notable NYC: 12/12–12/18
Saturday 12/12: Diana Hamilton and Steve McCaffery join the Segue series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Many people read Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Housing Works, 1 p.m., free. Brian Matthew Kim, Ann Podracky, Jolie Hale, and Jason N. Fischedick…
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The Rumpus and Electric Literature Present: It’s Too Cold for This!
The Rumpus and Electric Literature are excited to present IT’S TOO COLD FOR THIS, a holiday reading!
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Notable NYC: 2/15–2/21
Saturday 2/15: Luna Miguel, Jacob Steinberg, and Gabby Bess read poetry. Mellow Pages, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 2/16: Stephen Elliott and Julia Fierro join Gina Frangello as she reads from her novel A Life in Men (February 2014). Fierro’s forthcoming…
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Goodbye to…Earth-Shattering Sex?
The Atlantic gave the Rumpus’s own Sari Botton, Melissa Febos, Mira Ptacin, and Cheryl Strayed a chance to delve deeper into their contributions to the anthology “Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York.” In a roundtable discussion with…
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The Rumpus Interview with Sari Botton
We sit down with Sari Botton, long-time Rumpus contributor and author of our “Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me” column, to talk about her new anthology, Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, and more.
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Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me: Melissa Febos
In Whip Smart, Melissa Febos unflinchingly chronicles five years in her early twenties when she was a dominatrix and heroin user. But the book is about so much more than those details.
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The Next Letter in the Mail: Melissa Febos
The next Letter in the Mail, going out this coming Wednesday, is from Melissa Febos. Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press/2010), which chronicles the four years she spent working as a dominatrix.
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A Crisis of Hands
One of life’s many struggles is learning to become comfortable with your body–a body you didn’t choose. We’ve all looked in the mirror and wanted to change something. For Rumpus contributor Melissa Febos, it was her hands. Febos says: They gave…
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Process Talk
At Bomblog, writer Melissa Febos and musician Kathleen Hanna discuss the creative process, collaboration versus doing it alone, writing about sex work, nasty online commenters, and more. “Even while I was doing things I knew were provocative, and were meant…