Episode 78: Melissa Febos

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🗓️ 15 February 2017

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart, about her life as a professional dominatrix, and the essay collection, Abandon Me, coming out February 28th. In this episode, she talks to the girls about the subjects she so eloquently covers (read: both Holly and Laura's minds were both totally blown on this book) in Abandon Me: obsessive love, addiction, mental illness and recovery from all of it. Melissa's award-winning work has been published in the New York Times, Salon, The Kenyon Review, among many others. She's the Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth University and MFA faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). She serves on the Board of Directors for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, and co-curated the Manhattan reading and music series, Mixer, for nine years. More about Melissa and her work at www.melissafebos.com.

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0:00.0	Hey guys this is Holly and we were supposed to air this episode around the time
0:08.6	that Melissa's book came out on February 28th.
0:13.0	But we are in New York and we got lazy.
0:16.2	And so we are releasing this a couple weeks early
0:19.2	so that we have something on Wednesday.
0:21.9	So we hope you guys enjoy this if there's any references to
0:24.3	dates just keep in mind this is supposed to be released two weeks from today.
0:28.3	All right love you guys. Bye. I am Holly Whitaker and this is home and this is home podcast.
0:50.0	And so it would begin.
0:52.0	Hello. Hello.
0:53.0	Hello.
0:55.0	That's my voice still kill you,
0:56.0	Botany.
0:58.0	Yes.
0:59.0	Make you angry.
1:00.0	That's my place.
1:01.0	Thank you, angry.
1:02.0	I actually like the way sick people sound, just so you know. I think I sound
1:10.1	cute when I'm sick. I think I sound less annoying when I'm sick. I think when I'm not sick. So much
1:19.2	much more annoying. I'm like this makes me so nice and invulnerable or vulnerable and sweet.
1:27.0	Okay. Don't you want to just tuck me in a bed and give me a teddy bear?
1:32.0	No, okay, all right. Let's talk let's say some
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