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Things I Read That I Love #192: My 20 Favorite Longreads of 2015
I could’ve picked 200 but I just picked 20.
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Things I Read That I Love #134: The Anti-Coloring Book
Topics include John Green, being bipolar, large-scale organic farming, letters from arsonist, joint custody, Sandy Hook, Koh Phangan, Michael Jackson and MOAR!
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Things That I Read That I Love #186: As If They Had Just Been Waiting For Us To Ask
Topics include not having children, Nicki Minaj, the black family in the age of mass incarceration, Bernie Sanders, Ina Garten, the Tonys, a gay commune and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #184: It Seemed Everyone, Even The Moon, Was Laughing and Drunk.
Topics include working at Disney, the real lives of Sugar Daddies, Michael Derrick Hudson in context, the ghost town of Bodie, Live Aid, an essay that made me cry and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #189: How Can She Be That Pretty and That Nice?
Topics include private policing in Detroit, The Hunger Games, AirBnB, the Troubled Teen boot camp, women’s prison, Zola’s true story, being a guest star on “Friends” and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #177: A Kind Of Inoculation Against Future Hurt
Topics include queer mamas and donor sperm, suicide in Palo Alto, Mary Gaitskill and men, orthodontics, black feminism, Baltimore and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #180: It’s Never Not My Fault That I Knocked You Off The Chair
Topics include porn stars, the murder of an unarmed homeless black man, The Runaways, Ta-Nehisi Coates, brand-led fake holidays and DigiTour.
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Things I Read That I Love #174: Characters Arise Out Of Our Need For Them
Topics include Dominique Moceanu, crowdfunding, recording our lives on social media, illness and diagnosis in comics, fan fiction, murder, the end of “bohemian” San Francisco and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #176: The Many-Gendered Mothers Of My Heart
Topics include indoor malls, therapy, queer identity (well it’s more complicated than that — you’ll see), Judy Blume, domestic abuse in South Carolina and more.
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Things I Read That I Love #169: More Stories We Tell Ourselves In Order to Live
Topics include same-sex adoption, the 50 Shades movie, Keurig cups, the Ferguson Police Department, Susan Berman, the missing Malaysia Airlines flight and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #167: The Dark Fruits Of The Life I Had Chosen
Topics include showbiz seniors, independent Black American film-making, genetic sexual attraction, prostitution in Germany and so much more! Also an essay by the late David Carr.
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Things I Read That I Love #162: I Suspect That Everyone I Know Might Reject Me At Any Moment
Topics include Nicholas Sparks, the day she left her son in the car, The Dead Dad Club, IKEA, Pam & Tommy and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #170: Like The Truth Was Such A Pleasure To Step into
Topics include race in Silicon Valley, Ophelia, the Famous Writers School, The Jinx and Serial, the beginnings of the North American slave trade and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #168: Profound Shame And Fantastic Imagination
Topics include this business of art, tupperware, David Carr, The New York Times, Miranda July, for-profit foster care, arson science and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #160: Smarter Than She Wants You To Know
Topics include Jay from the Adnan Syed case, Radio Shack, The Doodler Murders, Sex after pregnancy, “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?” and Dorothy Allison on “A Question of Class.”
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Things I Read That I Love #154: Hides Junk Food All Over Her Bedroom
Topics include international development, Chris Rock, My Little Ponies, water parks, Asian-Americans on TV, the gay wing of the LA County jail, writing POC and MOAR!
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Things I Read That I Love #152: To Make Thunder Where There Was No Lightning
Topics include “redneck reality TV,” cheerleading, Guantánamo, Reality Bites, rehab, Modern farmer, men and feminism and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #136: I Fell So Hard for Tomato Juice One Summer
Topics include class rage, the crash of EgyptAir 990, the cruise ship industry, elephant abuse at the circus, Justin Bieber, falling in love with everything and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #128: His Favorite Place in LA These Days is Home Depot.
Topics include Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, Alex Trebek, Murderabilia, privilege, egg donation, Dr.Drew, heroin addiction and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #133: I Cannot Confirm or Deny That I May Have Kissed Two or Three or Maybe Even Five of Them
Topics include Vintage Black Glamour, Dov Charney & Terry Richardson & Vice, hospice care, The Mighty Ducks trilogy, summer matinees and more!