Résultats pour "Melissa" dans Arts et littérature

Ce soir-là, Fernande m’a regardée longuement. Elle a posé sur moi ses yeux clairs, fatigués mais incroyablement présents, et elle a dit, comme on dépose une vérité sur la table, sans pathos, sans peur : « Tant que je peux parler, je suis là. » Elle avait presque cent ans. Moi, j’en avais vingt. Entre nous, il n’y avait pas seulement huit décennies d’écart. Il y avait des silences, des habitudes, une distance que le temps avait installée sans qu’on s’en rende compte. Et pourtant, il y avait la même urgence : ne pas disparaître l’une pour l’autre. Fernande a toute sa tête.

"Sex in the City," Melissa Todd’s highly acclaimed weekly column, has been delighting and appalling the readers of Love It! magazine since 2021. They offer a candid and humorous look at her life as an international dominatrix, porn producer and actor, alongside her other roles as wife, mother, and self-proclaimed idiot.

While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, twenty-six-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn with gender discrimination, and after the lawyers argued Ludtke v. Kuhn in federal court, she won. Her 1978 groundbreaking case affirmed her equal rights, and the judge's order opened the doors for several generations of women to be hired in sports media.

My Journey Through War and Peace: Explorations of a Young Filmmaker, Feminist and Spiritual Seeker is based on Melissa Burch's experiences as a war journalist for BBC, CBS, and other networks. Her team was one of the first documentary crews allowed in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, and she was featured in a New York Times story about her time in Afghanistan. She was just in her 20s when she traveled with the moujahedeen, filmed an attack on a Soviet convoy, slept with an Afghan commander, and climbed 14,000-foot mountains in the Hindu Kush.

In 2012, Melissa Broder went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread, so she began @SoSadToday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into existential themes...

“These essays are sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of gorgeous. They reveal so much about what it is to live in this world, right now.” —Roxane Gay, New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist From acclaimed poet and creator of the popular twitter account @SoSadToday comes...

Longlisted for the National Book Award · A New York Times Notable Book of the Year · Winner of the New York City Book Award · Shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award · Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography · Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize · Finalist for the...