Telling Your Secrets Can Set You Free | Melissa Febos | TEDxNavesink
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- Опубликовано: 2 май 2016
- Acclaimed memoirist and essayist, Melissa Febos, shares her lifelong habit of secrecy. She never planned to write a book about her experiences as a heroin addict and professional dominatrix, but the result of exposing and making sense out of her dark history had profound and unexpected results. By making her darkness visible, she reached thousands of strangers and became closer with her own family. "This kind of honesty," she claims, "makes room for every kind of love."
Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press 2010), and the forthcoming essay collection, Abandon Me (Bloomsbury 2017). Her work has appeared in venues including The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Glamour, Post Road, Salon, New York Times, Portland Review, Dissent, and she has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, Anderson Cooper Live, CNN’s Dr. Drew, & elsewhere.
Her essays have won prizes from Prairie Schooner, Story Quartzerly, and The Center for Women Writers, and she is the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, & The MacDowell Colony.
The recipient of an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, she is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth University and MFA faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA).
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I love this woman so much. I had the honor of taking a Personal Essay class from her in Port Townsend at the Writers' Workshoppe & Imprint Books. She's a phenomenal teacher, writer and human being. I'm dying to read her new book.
That was an ammmazzing speech. I'm reading her book now and wanted to match the voice with the words. Thank you for sharing this. As an aspiring writer I'm struggling with the truth on the page as well.
Just checked a crime & investigation TV expert (from Monsteresses), Melissa Febos. Just finished watching this. Just jaw dropping honesty... much respect.
Her book "Abandon Me" is a monster; so raw and honest. Get it...
Wow. Well spoken thank you.
wonderful memoir writer and interesting concept for a ted talk
yeah, mel is pretty nice. we met at a harvard creative writing class. then brooklyn, hollywood; mel febos is an angel.
conceit has many faces, yes many faces, MF.
yeah, cool. Just woke up from a dream of you (Melissa) buried in ice in the back of a pick up truck. (we were going to sell you). I tried freeing you. I woke up to a glass mug of Latvian vodka.