Results for: dead to me
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Things I Read That I Love #116: We Should Seek Maximum Publicity and Maximum Debunking
Topics include murder, addiction, ghosting for Julian Assange, masking, movie novelizations, Gitmo and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #111: But If I Was Holding A Coconut
Topics include fundamentalist Christian homeschooling, V.C. Andrews, BUST Magazine, the Backstreet Boys, the House of Prayer, ghostwriting, The Greyhound and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #113: In A Way, We’re All Here To Be Swallowed Up
Topics include Fox News, The Illinois State Fair, Johnny Lewis, Mean Girls, Woody Allen, medical actors, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #95: Oh, She’s Instafamous
Topics include dead malls, Mary Gaitskill, fear of clowns, Space Jam, teenage girls on social media, dead malls, ‘Real Life’ and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #98: Everything Means Nothing To Me
Topics include Elliot Smith, larping, snuff, Lean In and facebook feminism, the lived history of Concord MA, child sex trafficking, growing up Chinese in West Van and so much more!
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140 Longform Pieces You Can Read And Love
140 articles and essays to read and save and love, in celebration of the 100th edition of “Things I Read That I Love”
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Things I Read That I Love #99: Ending Is Hard But It’s Easier Than Loving You
Topics include a “the girl in the closet” (a terrifying story of child abuse), stripping, the funeral business, 12 Years a Slave, sadness, sweatshops, bell hooks on “Lean In” and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #91: A Maniacal Power Fantasy That Panders To Female Anger and Fear
Topics include Claire Danes, missionary/colonialist collectors, the death of Kendrick Johnson in Georgia, the Lusty Lady, Gone Girl, Thomas Pynchon, growing up Chinese in America and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #89: But It Was A Myth I Believed In
Topics include assisted living facilities, the militarization of the police, work, bike shops, Intervention, grief, TV ratings, cotton farmer suicides, Woody Allen’s New York and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #85: Cut-Out Dolls For Grown-Up Girls
Topics include Shirley Jackson, paper dolls, disaster reporting in Haiti, HIV/AIDS, the Worst of White Folks, Rick James, exes on social media, working at a men’s magazine and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #86: An Outsider Is Likely To See Things That Insiders Will Not See
Topics include Kimani Grey, stripping in a boomtown, grief, Reddit and the Boston Bombing, Rodney King, “Sex and the City,” Mary Gaitskill, sexism in the Texas legislature, travel guides and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #72: Even If She Was Gay Emotionally
Topics include Gia Carnagi, Jenna Lyons, Dodd-Frank, solitary confinement, day care, Q*bert, Khadijah Williams, Prom 1995, Shutterbabe and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #69: It’s My Turn, Babe
Topics include Connie Britton, Jonesboro, NPR’s Intern Emily, Renata Alder, “Lean In,” abuse at girls’ correctional facilities, when heroin was legal, singing, Sex House, that guy’s Gucci addiction and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #58: Remember Friendster
Topics include mass murder, online dating in 2003, 9/11, anorexia, how Wal-Mart kills people, death of a bad dad, life after a breakup and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #55: Snow Fall, Snow Fall, Snow Fall
Topics include a deadly avalanche, Johnny & Winona, joy, survivalists, a church abuse scandal, a Mormon reporter on the Romney bus, malls, revealing your HIV status and contemplating psychopathy.
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Things I Read That I Love #50: Habitat Habit!
Topics include serial television programs, Mr. Rogers, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, caffeine, underground new york city, boomtown North Dakota, marching band hazing, murder and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #52: The Very Special One-Year Anniversary Edition
We celebrate an entire year of TIRTLs with a look at 32 of my favorite longreads of all time!
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Things I Read That I Love #43: High Times
Topics include hipster-bashing, Anna Nicole Smith, stolen bikes, writing non-fiction, teaching kids to write, the Gloucester pregnancy “pact” and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #19: Are You Experienced?
Topics include The Daily Mail, Treyvon Martin, Dartmouth fraternity hazing, wilderness camps for troubled teens, bookstores and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #7
This week we’ll travel to North Korea, but also to Portland! Topics include oxy addiction, the NBA, wax museums and murder/suicide!