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Five Great Reads: Jacinda Ardern, how they made The Goonies, and a year of celibacy

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

The Guardian - AU

‘Our fantasy of love has to do with need and dependency’: Melissa Febos on her year of celibacy

Febos’s life flourished while taking a year off sex and dating. In a new memoir, The Dry Season, she explores the allure of romance

The Guardian - US

8 Divinely Erotic Books to Kick Off Your Hot Nun Summer

With her new memoir, 'The Dry Season,' out now, Melissa Febos shares the surprisingly sexy books she read during her year of intentional celibacy.

Marie Claire

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Our obsession with the girl-ish label

The empowering reason why 2023 is the year of girlhood

Salon

Author Melissa Febos on freeing women from adolescent conditioning in 'Girlhood'

Feminist writer Melissa Febos is the author of four memoirs, including the essay collection "Girlhood". Dubbed "a book every woman should read", it investigates how adolescent girls are conditioned to accept patriarchal structures. Her first novel "Whip Smart" recounts her four years working as a Manhattan dominatrix to pay for…

France 24

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

Poet Dean Atta, writer and critic PD Smith and Guardian readers Jessica and Brenda discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

More navel-gazing, please. Melissa Febos thinks personal essays can change the world

The desire to confide, to be seen, is a universal human one; personal narrative is a way of reaping art from that desire. But only some people are taught that their lives are worthy of the endeavor.

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