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Selected Publications

"The Sexiest Year of My Life Involved Zero Sex" in New York Times

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"Was My Boyfriend Financially Controlling? Was My Girlfriend?" in Modern Love column of New York Times

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"Dear Judy" in New York Review of Books

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"Can You Love the Art and Hate the Monster?" in The New Yorker

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"How I Learned the Art of Seduction" in New York Times

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"The Animal Within the Animal" in Astra Magazine

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"The Kindest Cut" in New York Times Magazine

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"The Return: The Art of Confession" in Sewanee Review

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"Jeannette Winterson, My Therapist, and Me" in New York Review of Books

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Memoirs Shortlist in New York Times Book Review

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"A Big Long Time" in Elle Magazine

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"Getting to No" in New York Times Magazine

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"What if the Pain Never Ends? New York Times

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Excerpt of Girlhood in the New York Times

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"The Wild, Sublime Body" in Yale Review

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"One Word: Loose" in Paris Review online

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"The Cure" in The Cut

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"How a Year of Celibacy Prepared Me for Life in Quarantine" in Vogue

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"The Mirror Test" in Paris Review

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"Les Calanques" in The Sun

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"Mind Fuck: Writing Better Sex" in Sewanee Review

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"Art by Women About Women Making Art About Women" in The Believer

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"Thesmophoria" in Sewanee Review

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"Intrusions" in Tin House

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"Hail Mary" in Buzzfeed

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Review of Mostly Dead Things & A Philosophy of Ruin in the New York Times Book Review

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"Rebel Girl" in Longreads

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"Song of Songs" in The Believer

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"Playing Cupid" in New York Times Travel

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Essays Shortlist in New York Times Book Review

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"Do You Want to Be Known for Your Writing or Your Swift Email Responses?" in Catapult

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Excerpt of Abandon Me in Tin House online

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"Reconciliation" in Lenny Letter

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"Wunderkammer" in Vogue

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"The Heart-Work: Writing About Trauma As A Subversive Act" in Poets & Writers 

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"Teaching After Trump" in Granta

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"Kettle Holes" in Granta

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"Feel Like Jumping: Best of the Women of Studio One" in Tin House online

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“Scarification” in Guernica

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“The Book of Hours” in Story Quarterly

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“Call My Name” in Prairie Schooner

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“All of Me” in The Kenyon Review

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Melissa in the New York Times Opinionator

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Melissa in Salon

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Melissa Febos

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