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Things I Read That I Love #183: Being Comfortable Being Uncomfortable Is A Very Effective Way To Be A Human
Topics include needing diverse books, prison food, Tinder As Video Game, the scam of the Art Academy of San Francisco, a triple murder in Florida, sorority life and so much more.
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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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Women In Prison: A Longform Reading List
“Orange is the New Black” premieres today, here is your really thorough reading list — from Assata Shakur to nuns against nukes to incredible journalism on the various horrors of the U.S. criminal “justice” system.
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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 #173: Blame Our Generation For Overanalyzing Everything
Topics include being childless by choice, “white trash food,” Christopher Columbus the mass murderer, Hillary Clinton, the Millennials’ Sexual Revolution, gun violence and more!
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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 #158: A Big, Bright Shining Star
Topics include Ferguson, Boogie Nights, incarcerating victims of domestic violence, sex ed films and racism at The New Republic.
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Things I Read That I Love #164: Being Underestimated Is Something Most Women Have In Common
Topics include Dollywood, women writers, migrant farmers, Dorothy Allison, the Nigerian schoolgirls who escaped Boko Haram, the American military and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #159: One Foot Sticking Out From Under The Duvet
Topics include RENT, the Universal Life Church, Fanny Howe, family farms, The Handmaid’s Tale, Reese Witherspoon, Law & Order and more!
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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 #155: I Will Only Bleed Here
Topics include Ferguson, the MFA-to-writing-teacher track, CRACKER BARREL, Uber, The Strand, the Freedom Summer, and so much more!