# Event Details - **Event Name**: Melissa Febos: The Dry Season - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for an in-person event with bestselling author Melissa Febos for a discussion of her new book The Dry Season.About this EventJoin us for an in-person event with bestselling author Melissa Febos for a discussion of her new book The Dry Season. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.Can’t make the event? Purchase a signed copy of The Dry Season here.   ACCESSIBILITY:Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator. Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at events@strandbooks.com by 5/27 to request.For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact .--------------------------------------------------------------------From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge.In the wake of a catastrophic two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break: For three months she would abstain from dating, relationships, and sex. Her friends were amused. Did she really think three months was a long time? But to Febos, it was. Ever since her teens, she had been in one relationship after another. As she puts it, she could trace a “daisy chain of romances” from her adolescence to her mid thirties. Finally, she would carve out time to focus on herself and examine the patterns that had produced her midlife disaster. Over those first few months, she gleaned insights into her past and awoke to the joys of being single. She decided to extend her celibacy, not knowing it would become the most fulfilling and sensual year of her life. No longer defined by her romantic pursuits, she learned to relish the delights of solitude, the thrill of living on her own terms, the distinct pleasures unmediated by lovers, and the freedom to pursue her ideals without distraction or guilt. Bringing her own experiences into conversation with those of women throughout history—from eleventh-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen, Virginia Woolf, and Octavia Butler to the Shakers and Sappho—Febos situates her story within a newfound lineage of role models who unapologetically pursued their ambitions and ideals.By abstaining from all forms of romantic entanglement, Febos began to see her life and her self-worth in a radical, new way. Her year of divestment transformed her relationships with friends and peers, her spirituality, her creative practice, and, most of all, her relationship to herself. Blending intimate personal narrative and incisive cultural criticism, The Dry Season tells a story that’s as much about celibacy as its inverse: pleasure, desire, fulfillment. Infused with fearless honesty and keen intellect, it’s the memoir of a woman learning to live at the center of her own story, and a much-needed catalyst for a new conversation around sex and love. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/dd520ef0-eafe-11ef-8e22-eb2479d4534e-rimg-w495-h740-dc121211-gmir.jpg Photo credit: Beowulf SheehanMelissa Febos is the national bestselling author of four books, including Girlhood—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, LAMBDA Literary, the National Endowment for the Arts, the British Library, the Black Mountain Institute, the Bogliasco Foundation, and others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Essays, Vogue, The Sewanee Review, New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. Febos is a full professor at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City with her wife, the poet Donika Kelly. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/melissa-febos-the-dry-season/100001238172951629 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, womens-history-month - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 1 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fmelissa-febos-the-dry-season-tickets-1238172951629 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 13.61, max: 35.66, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Strand Book Store - **lat**: 40.7333156 - **long**: -73.99095369999999 - **full address**: Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: The Strand Book Store (https://allevents.in/org/the-strand-book-store/22544066) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/68f64712bb7ead6fcd6da35d5d1231c7058579c7229c7ac16b41024c4e5fcf1c-rimg-w1200-h628-dcdf1931-gmir.png?v=1739556595 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/1149f88f9d05d80630c9da1355da310129f58dc3081ab82ee2d06747ad5c85f5-rimg-w400-h400-dcdf1931-gmir.png?v=1739556595 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 13.61 up to 35.66 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** The Strand Book Store - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, literary-art, womens-history-month - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Melissa Febos: The Dry Season ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Melissa Febos: The Dry Season", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/68f64712bb7ead6fcd6da35d5d1231c7058579c7229c7ac16b41024c4e5fcf1c-rimg-w1200-h628-dcdf1931-gmir.png?v=1739556595", "startDate": "2025-06-10", "endDate": "2025-06-10", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/melissa-febos-the-dry-season/100001238172951629", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Strand Book Store", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "828 Broadway", "postalCode": "10036", "addressLocality": "New York", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.7333156", "longitude": "-73.99095369999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for an in-person event with bestselling author Melissa Febos for a discussion of her new book The Dry Season.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "2025-06-10", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "lowPrice": "13.61", "highPrice": "35.66", "price": "13.61", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/melissa-febos-the-dry-season/100001238172951629" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/melissa-febos-the-dry-season/100001238172951629", "price": "35.66", "name": "General Admission + A Copy of "The Dry Season"" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/melissa-febos-the-dry-season/100001238172951629", "price": "13.61", "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "The Strand Book Store", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/the-strand-book-store/22544066", "description": "Strand Book Storewas born in 1927 on Fourth Avenue on what was then called “Book Row,” an area that covered six city blocks and housed forty-eight bookstores. 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