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A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman's transformation from college student to professional dominatrix. While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as a dominatrix in a midtown dungeon. In poetic, nuanced prose she charts in Whip Smart how unchecked risk-taking eventually gave way to a course of self-destruction. But as she recounts crossing over the very boundaries that she set for her own safety, she never plays the victim. In fact, the glory of this memoir is Melissa's ability to illuminate the strange and powerful truths that she learned as she found her way out of a hell of her own making. Rest assured; the reader will emerge from the journey more or less unscathed. Contains mature themes.

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"Melissa Febos is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Whip Smart. She has been featured on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross and on the cover of the New York Post, and her writing has been published in numerous major venues. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Recently named one of ""Five New Queer Voices to Watch Out For"" by Lambda Literary, Febos is the winner of the Memoirs, Ink half-yearly contest and is a 2010 and 2011 MacDowell Colony fellow. Melissa Febos is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Whip Smart. She has been featured on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross and on the cover of the New York Post, and her writing has been published in numerous major venues. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Recently named one of ""Five New Queer Voices to Watch Out For"" by Lambda Literary, Febos is the winner of the Memoirs, Ink half-yearly contest and is a 2010 and 2011 MacDowell Colony fellow."

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