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Melissa Febos on Body Work, essays in defense of memoir

Memoirist Melissa Febos attacks the gender dynamics of the anti-personal-essay crowd in "Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative."

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The Case Against the Trauma Plot

Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?

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Nonfiction Book Review: Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos Catapult, $16 95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-64622-085-4

Nonfiction Book Review: Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos Catapult, $16 95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-64622-085-4
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NWP Professor Melissa Febos s book lights up the media in 2021 | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The University of Iowa renowned worldwide for creative writing has struck literary gold again, thanks to Melissa Febos, associate professor of English in the Nonfiction Writing Program. Since Febos published her third book, GIRLHOOD, in March, the national media have lined up to sing its and its author's praises. GIRLHOOD, Febos’ second essay collection, examines narratives

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