Melissa Febos on writing and writing personal narrative
Melissa Febos talks about her new book about writing, and historian Leo Landis discusses Iowa's history with year-round Daylight Saving Time.
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Melissa Febos talks about her new book about writing, and historian Leo Landis discusses Iowa's history with year-round Daylight Saving Time.
Melissa Febos, associate professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program, was named winner of the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for Girlhood, a collection of essays about the values that shape girls and the women they become.
The author on her new book Body Work, the communal nature of writing, and why theraputic art is still good art.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) -- "I do not think that the vocation of writer is superior to any other," writes Melissa Febos in her newest essay collection, "but I do believe it is the most useful life for m
Melissa Febos' book in itself is an example of the strength of personal narrative; it's also an argument for how such narratives inevitably create space for community as well as a freer self.