# Event Details - **Event Name**: Melissa Febos w/ Claire Dederer, THE DRY SEASON - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 14 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Sat, 14 Jun, 2025 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Blending intimate personal narrative and incisive cultural criticismAbout this EventAbout the BookIn 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 with men and women. As she puts it, she could trace a “daisy chain of romances” from her adolescence to her midthirties. 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.About the AuthorMelissa Febos is the national bestselling author of five books, including most recently, The Dry Season, and Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, LAMBDA Literary, The Black Mountain Institute, The British Library, the American Library in Paris, the Bogliasco Foundation, and others. Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Sun, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Essays, Vogue, and New York Review of Books. She is a full professor at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City with her wife, the poet Donika Kelly.Claire Dederer is the author of Love and Trouble, and the New York Times best-selling memoir Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, which has been translated into twelve languages. A book critic, essayist, and reporter, Dederer is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and has also written for The Atlantic, Vogue, Slate, The Nation, and New York magazine. She lives near Seattle with her family.Purchase your copy of The Dry Season here. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/seattle/melissa-febos-w-claire-dederer-the-dry-season/100001355369529749 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, health-wellness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 12 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Seattle - **state**: WA - **country**: United States - **location**: The Elliott Bay Book Company - **lat**: 47.614679 - **long**: -122.319631 - **full address**: The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Melissa Febos w/ Claire Dederer, THE DRY SEASON - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/c67572f629d0ef6655a9a96903e994f84735baddd622b4e51e41328b54ce788e-rimg-w1200-h600-dca9d2c4-gmir.jpg?v=1747109561 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Melissa Febos w/ Claire Dederer, THE DRY SEASON being held? - **A:** Melissa Febos w/ Claire Dederer, THE DRY SEASON takes place on Sat, 14 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Sat, 14 Jun, 2025 at 08:00 pm at The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Melissa Febos w/ Claire Dederer, THE DRY SEASON? - **A:** Melissa Febos w/ Claire Dederer, THE DRY SEASON is organized by Elliott Bay Book Company. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Melissa Febos w/ Claire Dederer, THE DRY SEASON", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/c67572f629d0ef6655a9a96903e994f84735baddd622b4e51e41328b54ce788e-rimg-w1200-h600-dca9d2c4-gmir.jpg?v=1747109561", "startDate": "2025-06-14", "endDate": "2025-06-14", "url": "https://allevents.in/seattle/melissa-febos-w-claire-dederer-the-dry-season/100001355369529749", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "The Elliott Bay Book Company", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "1521 10th Avenue", "postalCode": "98122", "addressLocality": "Seattle", "addressRegion": "WA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "47.614679", "longitude": "-122.319631" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Blending intimate personal narrative and incisive cultural criticism", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-17", "availabilityEnds": "2025-06-14", "validFrom": "2026-04-17", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/seattle/melissa-febos-w-claire-dederer-the-dry-season/100001355369529749" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-17", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-17", "url": "https://allevents.in/seattle/melissa-febos-w-claire-dederer-the-dry-season/100001355369529749", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Elliott Bay Book Company", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/elliott-bay-book-company/17746738" } ] } ] ```