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Things I Read That I Love #130: Let Jolene Live Fierce and Free and Pure Fantasy
Topics include being “that woman,” a botched death row case, fradulent food, dead poet’s society, the Scopes Monkey trial, murder, more on the 9/11 museum and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #127: Waiting For The Garden of Eden To Open Up Again Under A New Management
Topics include Nuyorican poets, Nigeria, MSN Messenger, gendered toys, Miley Cyrus, domestic violence, Miley Cyrus 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 #118: Folks Are Well-Intentioned and Stupid, Well-Intentioned and Broken
Topics include solitary confinement, the Barista class, the burrnesha of Albania, Back to the Future II, Swissair Flight 111, Dazed & Confused and so much more. Srsly this is a good one.
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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 #115: I Go From Zero To Bitch In 2.5 Seconds
Topics include Sabrina the Teenage Witch, life after “The Real World,” Abercrombie, madness, 4chan and other things too complicated to describe in this little box!
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Things I Read That I Love #110: That Room With The Ashtrays and The Stereo and The Bed Sheet
Topics include Saturday Night Live in the mid-90s, the cannibal cop, “Satanic Ritual Abuse,” abortion, being Korean and American, Tonya Harding and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #109: Do You Think Ocean Would Wear This?
Topics include women on the internet, Lululemon, death at “The Secret”‘s self-help retreat, Fallon Fox, Bev Kearney, “Baby Got Back” and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #103: I Had No Idea What Was True
Topics include Katrina, Catching Fire, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Silicon Valley, free market propaganda, animals in Hollywood, abortion, the LA riots and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #108: Cheap Red Wine And Stacks Of Crisps
Topics include Okinawa, Fraggle Rock, The Crystal Cathedral, a 55-year-old murder case, job hunting, being an elf at Harrod’s and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #105: The Rainbow, The Stars, The Statue Of The Panda
Topics include Lisa Frank, genetic testing, Blue Star Texas, KidZania, the tragic death of a college freshman, Balthazar, Christopher McCandless Pilgrims and 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 #102: Nobody Gets Off
Topics include LinkedIn, AIDS in film, Deep Springs, Blockbuster Video, Paris Hilton, O.J Simpson, brocialism, health care in Texas and more!
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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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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 #87: The Cranky, Smart Soulmate Every Aspiring Artist Pines For
Topics include Creedmor Psychiatric Center, San Francisco, Jeanette Walls, LSD, Eddie Ellis, The O.C., housesitting, selfies, rape in a Mennonite community, Texas, the lottery 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 #84: What If We Acknowledged Those Fears?
Topics include Walter White, manic pixie dream girls, economics, shyness, Kerry Washington, shyness, Jonestown, racism and mercy, the future of journalism, affirmative action and more!