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Whip Smart: The True Story of a Secret Life
Melissa Febos
★★★★· Published 2010· 290 pages· read 2022
Febos's memoir of her years as a dominatrix while battling addiction. Unflinching and beautifully written.
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The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos spends a year celibate and figures out who she is on her own. Smart and searching.
★ 5From the Corner of the Oval
Beck Dorey-Stein
Beck was an Obama White House stenographer, and this is her dishy, propulsive memoir of that world — plus a very ill-advised affair. I tore through it.
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Kevin Roose
A Brown student spends a semester undercover at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University and comes away with real empathy. Curious and open-hearted, not smug — I loved that about it.