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Things I Read That I Love #330: Titanic, Top Chef, Jeopardy, Libraries, Marvel, BookTok and the Fake Sherlock
Topics include a Top Chef oral history, the fake Sherlock, lost Jeopardy tapes, the Costa Concordia disaster, libraries, Bridget Jones, re-watching Titanic, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fictions from the lesbian archive and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #333: Erewhon, Melrose Place, The Bowel Unit, Blurred Lines and Crosswords
Ruby Tandoh on selling the seaside, nobody knows what’s happening online anymore, Caity Weaver looks for Tom Cruise near the airport, Patricia Lockwood takes her husband to the Bowel Unit, a journey through the annals of “Blurred Lines,” we ask if crosswords can be more inclusive and more longreads for your weekend.
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Things I Read That I Love #332: Massage Parlors, Daily Harvest, Climbing, Branson, Britney and More
Topics include the late shift at a Toronto massage parlor, Baptist Vegas, the New Ken circa 2017 by Caity Weaver, Buy Nothing, Daily Harvest, a missing girl in the Ozarks, a mountain-climbing death that changed everything and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #328: You Never Called That Girl Back Even Though You Were Dating
Topics include the mall, Tinder, Gabby Petito, the abuse scandal at an acclaimed L.A high school, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Crime Junkie, amusement parks, dog breeds and more!
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Things I Read That I Loved #327: Every Misunderstood Youth Must Be In Want of a Publisher.
Topics include Child Protective Services, wrongful convictions, abortion, OXO kitchen products, safety town, getitng cancelled in high school, Joel Kim Booster, MTV Books and more!
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Things I Read That I Loved #326: It Was 1997 and Everything Seemed Mostly Okay.
Topics include Barnes & Noble, Black Excellence according to Bel-Air, a dog’s purpose, #vanlife, a nurse imposter, the pursuit of hotness, Los Angeles, Starbucks, the real reason for a recent spike in traffic accidents and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces
Patricia Lockwood meets the pope, Leslie Jamison has a baby and gets divorced. Also: going to Disneyworld but not giving up your data, the reborn doll community, the Iron Claw, the tyranny of a mother’s vanity, how group chats rule the world and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #317: One Moment Could Be Ecstatic and The Next Perilous
Topics include reviewing the book review, TikTok aesthetics, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Soho House, private school, “A Teacher” and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #323: Pulp Fiction With a Hint of Social Justice
Topics include witchcraft consumerism, Kidz Bop, delivery workers in NYC, Ozy Media, abuse in the guardianship industry, Succession, documentaries and the hunt for a sober buzz!
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Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo
Andrea Long Chu on the critic and her publics, Rich Juzwiak on quitting, Caity Weaver on Flo from Progressive. Also: the re-ascendence of large pants, Kowloon Walled City, High Point University’s luxury dorms for America, a teen’s fatal plunge into the London underworld and more longreads for you.
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Things I Read That I Love #273: Books In Which Measurable Cerebral Activity Is Virtually Absent.
Topics include Hello Kitty, female TV detectives, sexual assault, Maya Rudolph, Puerto Rico becoming a tax haven for the rich, obesity, parties in the 80s, and more!
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Things I Read That I Loved #325: Like a Hippie Van Collided With a Paint Factory
Topics include TED Talks, murder, Morrissey, a horrific party limousine crash, infertility, the Atlanta Spa Shootings, Super Bowl Halftime Shows, a legendary Massachusetts roadside restaurant and more.
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Things I Read That I Love #321: I’m Not Normally Like This
Topics include Sinead O’Connor, The Talented Mr. Ripley, crushes, dog adoption competition, drinking alone and poppers!
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Things I Read That I Love #318: Eternally Hopeful That This Time There Will Be a Snack
Topics include marrying your platonic best friend, the rise of therapy-speak, COVID in prison, Homecoming at HBCUs, abuse documentaries, the road to terfdom, ranking the muppets and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #316: Beach-Ball Buttocks Mimicking The Most Famous Bottom In The World
Topics include a Hollywood con artist, lip-reading, the benefit of nervous breakdowns, ultra-fast fashion, Mrs. Meyer’s soap, writing lesbian sex, Gamestop, Mormon Mommie Bloggers, butt lifts and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #314: There Were Many Days In Which Several People Were Typing
Topics include Far Right literature, the Spelling Bee game, influencers traveling during COVID, the pandemic DIY boom, the Folgers Incest Ad, Lean Cuisine, recovery, faking illness on GoFundMe and truly a whole lot more! Like a lot. Sorry it’s been a minute.
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Things I Read That I Love #320: Remember How Reckless Karaoke Seemed so recently?
Topics include Zola, the rise in Black homeschooling, the return of FOMO, online stalking, “Friends,” why meetings, Generation X, racism in The Bachelor, Mare of Easttown and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #313: In A “Peeking Around The Dinner Party Host’s House On Your Way To The Bathroom” Kind of Way
Topics include Black voters, a bad reality TV show, murder, Judith Butler, how we quarantine, the tyranny of chairs, TikTok, Bath & Body Works, the Eco-Yogi slumlords of Brooklyn, Emily Ratajkowski and Ramona Quimby!
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Things I Read That I Love #306: She Has a Colander On Her Head, Like A Conspiracy Theorist
Topics include Geocities, e-books, the politics of mental health, podcast passivity, Mount Everest’s social climber, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, filming/staging sex scenes and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #311: As If I Were a Train and the Last Page Was Anna Karenina
Topics include Dollar Stores, Black media, Peak comfort TV, a 16-year-old model in the 90s, Hamilton, racial disparities in coronavirus cases, Ziwe Fumudoh, the primaries and so much more!