Febos encourages her readers to tell their stories, to write them, for themselves or others.
are all personal narratives themselves (as opposed to straight-up craft essays with clear dos and don'ts for the aspiring or practicing writer), they also provide practical and philosophical arguments for the expansiveness that such narratives allow and for their power in the world. I’m grateful to Febos for the lesson in how to do it." -Adam Dalva, The Atlantic Body Work helped me learn how to work alongside and through my ongoing pain by forging a creative outlet. Body Work, I learned over its 192 taut pages, is an explanation of why stories like Febos’s are powerful. "Melissa Febos is at the vanguard of this particular boom in confessional writing, and she is the guide I point my students to when they want to write in this style. It is satisfying to read such unity of vision." -Noor Qasim, The New York Times Book Review Body Work grants writers rare permission to take themselves, and their pain, seriously. "A welcome 'holistic approach' to writing and healing. Named a Most Anticipated Book by Bustle, Marie Claire, Glamour UK, Autostraddle, NET-A-PORTER, AnOther Magazine, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, and The Millions
Praise For This Book A NPR Best Book of the Year Candid and inspiring, Body Work will empower readers and writers alike, offering ideas-and occasional notes of caution-to anyone who has ever hoped to see themselves in a story. How might we go about capturing on the page the relationships that have formed us? How do we write about our bodies, their desires and traumas? What does it mean for an author’s way of writing, or living, to be dismissed as “navel-gazing”-or else hailed as “so brave, so raw”? And to whom, in the end, do our most intimate stories belong?ĭrawing on her own path from aspiring writer to acclaimed author and writing professor-via addiction and recovery, sex work and academia-Melissa Febos has created a captivating guide to the writing life, and a brilliantly unusual exploration of subjectivity, privacy, and the power of divulgence. In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller’s life and the questions which run through it. Memoir meets craft master class in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of how we think and write about intimate experiences-“a must read for anybody shoving a pen across paper or staring into a screen or a past” (Mary Karr)
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