We celebrate an entire year of TIRTLs with a look at 32 of my favorite longreads of all time!

In which all books mentioned herein were published after 1975 and almost everybody is both female and still alive.

This week: Eileen Myles, Emily Books, lesbians in comic books, Lady Business, technology and fiction, and what we’re reading.

Topics include my thirties, Canadian health care, women’s writing, anti-bullying programs and what the hell to do with your life according to Margaret Atwood and/or David Foster Wallace.

This week’s topics include Mitt Romney being a jerk, tornadoes, the history of telephones, the psychology of fraud, writing in the dark, paying your way into restaurants and so much more!

Topics include Fresno, internet marketing, consumerism vs. crafts, the McWane foundries, Justin Bieber, the opulence of hip-hop, tumblr and so much more!

Ellis Avery’s ‘The Last Nude’ is basically girl-on-girl fictional art history. You’re interested in it.

I read these things and I loved them. No honestly this one I think is especially good.

Topics include pill culture, tough-love teen homes, Lorrie Moore, marketing, plane crashes and Justin Bieber!

I read these things from newspapers, magazines and websites and I think you will like them too.

Riese’s Team Pick: “Like the naïve teenager who thought Mia Farrow’s apartment represented the urban version of middle-class digs, I continued to believe throughout college that it wasn’t fabulous wealth I was aspiring to, merely hipness.”

Maybe you think it’s stupid because it’s just a book and Harry Potter doesn’t exist. Well, he does for me. And I’m a better person because of it.

J.D. Salinger, author of “Catcher in the Rye” and legendary recluse, dies of natural causes at the age of 91. Will death kill his well-cultivated privacy? How do we honor our literary idols using the same media machine employed to vaporize/idolize our dead celebrities & rock stars? Will we get to read all his unpublished books now? Why do some people feel entitled to that, or anything, from anyone who has passed away, ever?