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Mar 22, 2025 | 
thesunmagazine.org | Finn Cohen |Melissa Febos |Monica Trasandes
As I write this in late February, it is snowing in central North Carolina for the second time in two days; it’s the third round of snow we’ve had this winter, which is already significant, but this time it’s really sticking given how cold it is. These events are rare here and have gotten rarer in the last few years.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
fivebooks.com | Annie Ernaux |Alison L. Strayer |T. Kira Madden |Melissa Febos
Thank you for choosing these memoirs of girlhood: five female coming-of-age stories. Why do you find it such a compelling subject? I think we spend our lifetimes trying to make sense of it. These are our most formative years, the years when how we think—our very brain structure, according to neuroscience—is being shaped. During puberty, similarly to post-partum, our brains show radical changes. So, we live with the repercussions of our girlhoods.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
yalereview.org | Melissa Febos
I locked the bathroom door and stared in the mirror at my face: tan and green-eyed, freckled by dried toothpaste spatter. No matter how long I looked, I could not remember that face after I turned away. I grasped at its slippery yolk, trying and failing to conjure my own image from memory. It was a cognitive riddle that I dared not speak, a quirk of brain. I was young then, only eight or eleven or sixteen.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Melina Spanoudi |Stuart Gillespie |Melissa Febos
You are viewing your 1 free article this month. Login to read more articles. News Helena Gonda has been promoted from senior commissioning editor to editorial director at Canongate, with immediate effect, in recognition of her “continued contribution to the company/excellent work this past year”.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Melissa Febos
Removing romance can help you break old patterns and open you up to a more authentic, sensual relationship with life. Photo / 123rfWarning: This article contains content of a sexual nature. Melissa Febos is the author of a forthcoming memoir, The Dry Season. OPINIONWhen I removed the option of romance, my sensual relationship to all the other aspects of my life deepened. A friend confided to me recently that she was burned out on dating.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Melissa Febos
It is summer in the Midwest, hot as soup, and I don a frock the size of a twin bed sheet in cooling cotton. “Going full women’s studies professor today, are we?,” my wife comments appreciatively. I give her a magisterial stare over the top of my reading glasses. “Where are my clogs?,” I ask, just for the theater of it. (It’s much too hot for clogs.)I am cruising toward my mid-40s and freer every minute.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
autostraddle.com | Melissa Febos
A few months ago, my wife texted me that she’d subscribed to LeaguePass, the streaming platform that provides recordings of every WNBA game and hosts many of them. “Here’s the password,” she wrote. “It’d be fun to watch some games.” I didn’t log in until a week or so later, when I watched the first WNBA game of my life. A few weeks later my wife walked into the living room at 8 a.m., rubbing her eyes. “Are you watching the replay from last night?” she asked, a little incredulous.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
afar.com | Melissa Febos
Ghent is a city of canals, its bridges studded with bursts of flowers. The Gothic architecture rises against the sky like elaborate sandcastles. As I navigate the cobbled streets, morning commuters whiz by me on bicycles, and the bells of St. Bavo’s Cathedral toll. I have traveled far and woken early to visit this first beguinage, a historic site that once housed spiritual medieval laywomen called beguines.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
janeratcliffe.substack.com | Jane Ratcliffe |George Saunders |Alexander Chee |Melissa Febos
Happy New Year, Beyonders! I’m so looking forward to going through 2024 with all of you by my side. There is so much dang suffering in the world right now, it doesn’t seem possible to be alive. But, truly, there is also wisdom and kindness and beauty and laughter and compassion and community and hope. Which is exactly why I started Beyond! To shine as much light as possible into the harrowing.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
infobae.com | Melissa Febos
EL COMÚN DENOMINADOR ENTRE AMBAS RELACIONES NO HABÍA SIDO EL GÉNERO NI LA ORIENTACIÓN SEXUAL. HABÍA SIDO YO. Te puede interesar: Dentro de la crisis por el futuro de la inteligencia artificial en OpenAIA mediados de mis veinte, estaba al borde de la bancarrota. No me costaba trabajo pagar el recibo de la electricidad, sino que estaba en la ruina de manera constante. Tenía una gran deuda persistente que llevaba años transfiriendo de una tarjeta de crédito a otra.
