Melissa Febos

Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart and three essay collections: Abandon Me, Girlhood, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. Her work has also appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Tin House, and elsewhere.

Interview Online

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By Melissa Febos & Denise Kripper

Melissa Febos thinks you should watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Denise Kripper recommends La niña santa.

Five wedges of blood orange rest on an open palm. The subject's other hand is suggestively touching two of the wedges.

Essay Online

The Animal Within the Animal

By Melissa Febos

In solitude, like masturbation, the body opens — but if not to another, then to what?