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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!
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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 #88: Whatever Was Shattered That Day
Topics include Kiese Laymon, black dolls, police stealing your shit, health care, strong female characters, asset forfeiture, the poorest rich kids in the world and death.
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Things I Read That I Love #81: If Sophie Had To Choose Between Two Awesome Things
Topics include temp workers, Dennis Rodman, Phish, Kanye, Wilcox County’s first integrated prom, murder, fertility, Mary McCarthy and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #79: Subterranean Homesick Blues
Topics include Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), web developers, poetry and death, meth, psychic Sylvia Browne, Coyote Ugly, Wikipedia, The Whole Earth Catalog and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #80: Whose Boxers Are These?
Topics include North Korea, gun control, animators from Mormon country, freelancing, the long con, the murder of Jam Master Jay, Brittney Griner, true war stories, indie bookstores and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #75: Quinoa Cranberry Pilaf, Coregasm
Topics include New York’s fancy gentleman’s clubs, Thelma & Louise, porn in San Francisco, shitty jobs, domestic violence, oxycontin abuse, scientology, band names and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #77: Rage, Rage Against The Coming Of The Light
Topics include binge-watching TV, wikipedia, Mary Kay, why The Great Gatsby sucks, Freedomland!, ANTM, Hunter S. Thompson, oversharing, lesbian nightlife romances 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 #71: He Wasn’t Weaving Bark Shoes
Topics include three strikes laws, Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally, the Mount Rainier shooting, YA novel covers, Ms., Naked Joe, domestic violence, photographers in Juárez 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!