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Things I Read That I Love #73: Tear-Smeared Eyeliner
Topics include trans* fiction, female soliders in combat, GoFundMe, the Lady Jaguars, The Wronged Man, food stamps, 90’s slutgrungefashion, breast cancer, Web U, southern cuisine and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #53: You’re Really Gonna Like The First One
Topics include Mormon fundamentalists, plane crashes, studying gangs, LOST, electrocution, nostalgia for YA novels and children’s books, not going to prom and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #63: Like A Warm Danish From An Expensive Pastry Shop
Topics include ICU nurses, Orson Scott Card, Dr. Oz, working your way through college, prosecuting potential sex offenders, two-timing in New Orleans, google destroying San Francisco and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #66: Reading In Underpants
This week’s TIRTL includes a special Underwear Week section, as well as pieces on topics including Jehovah’s Witness, onscreen violence, sex abuse, robots, fan fiction, junk food and Alaska.
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Things I Read That I Love #68: A-Poem-Worse-Than-Which-Cannot-Be-Imagined
Topics include Whitney Houston, the soul of student debt, Atlantic City, the West Memphis Three, Civil-Rights-era cold cases, notebooks, the Famous Poets Conference, the white male Academy, Westboro and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #67: Love Hunters!
Topics include teaching in New Orleans, Jewish camp, domestic abuse, “scenes from a group marriage,” arson, the LA riots, Miss USA pageants, Washington’s chef Hercules and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #49: I Know You’re Wondering When
Topics include young love, Politico, the Oklahoma City Thunder, used-book shopping, Nickleback, bipolar disorder, life on an Oglala Lakota reservation and the appeal of gay One Direction fanfiction.
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Things I Read That I Love #59: That Cosmic Biblioteca Back Home
Topics include Good Will Hunting, the Zumba Instructor, holding gun stores accountable, the arcade, the facebook bus, Kozol, losing your library, Suze Orman and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #48: These Are The People In Your Neighborhood
Topics include heroin addiction and Hurricane Katrina, puppets, insomnia, monopoly, natural disasters, Free To Be You And Me, Monopoly, books about gender and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #56: My Own Private Idaho
Topics include River Phoenix, Sister Outsider Metalhead, poverty & a college education, not being an asshole, gun control, Alcatraz and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #62: Diary Of A Bad Girl
Topics include 30 Rock, Mary Gaitskill, CES, The NRA, Perez Hilton, Kickstarter, Aileen Wuornos, Perez Hilton, Amy Bishop and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #61: White Rabbits White Rabbits
Topics include karaoke, faith-based slavery in an Angola prison, Greek politics, chronic pain, emotional abuse, Richard Pryor, The Golden Dawn, murder, fantasyland and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #60: Skate Like A Girl
Topics include the horrors of high school, lady skateboarders, Marquee, older parenthood, wine, emotional men, Lindsay Lohan, sexual violence in Vietnam and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #55: Snow Fall, Snow Fall, Snow Fall
Topics include a deadly avalanche, Johnny & Winona, joy, survivalists, a church abuse scandal, a Mormon reporter on the Romney bus, malls, revealing your HIV status and contemplating psychopathy.
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Things I Read That I Love #44: Screaming Sounds
Topics include Harriet the Spy, bipolar disorder, Jerry Sandusky, promiscuous reading, rock criticism, right-wing podcasts and online dating!
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Things I Read That I Love #47: If It Makes Me Happy
Topics include happiness, solitary confinement, Cosmopolitan magazine, Elliot Smith, public education reform, “the world of a professional naked girl” and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #51: More Casual Than Real Life
Topics include alcohol, Barack Obama’s twitter account, LIARS, Grace Paley, competitive eating, reading in bars, pretrial prison detention, Joan Didion and Magic The Gathering!
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Things I Read That I Love #52: The Very Special One-Year Anniversary Edition
We celebrate an entire year of TIRTLs with a look at 32 of my favorite longreads of all time!
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Things I Read That I Love #46: My Fight Album
Topics include affirmative action, moving to New York from Canada, female boxers, Jonah Lehrer, Vancouver, hormones and K-Pop!
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Things I Read That I Love #35: Proper Nouns
Topics include the Norway shooting, Nadia Comaneci, R.L Stine, Haruki Murakami, Gloria Allred, welfare-to-work programs, death row, eating disorders & Saved By the Bell!