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Things I Read That I Love #314: There Were Many Days In Which Several People Were Typing

Topics include Far Right literature, the Spelling Bee game, influencers traveling during COVID, the pandemic DIY boom, the Folgers Incest Ad, Lean Cuisine, recovery, faking illness on GoFundMe and truly a whole lot more! Like a lot. Sorry it’s been a minute.

By Riese| November 13, 2020 | 7 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #313: In A “Peeking Around The Dinner Party Host’s House On Your Way To The Bathroom” Kind of Way

Topics include Black voters, a bad reality TV show, murder, Judith Butler, how we quarantine, the tyranny of chairs, TikTok, Bath & Body Works, the Eco-Yogi slumlords of Brooklyn, Emily Ratajkowski and Ramona Quimby!

By Riese| September 25, 2020 | 3 Comments
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#BlackLivesMatter: A Longform Reading List

Fifty years of words I liked reading and you will too! Authors include James Baldwin, bell hooks, Kiese Laymon, Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, Bayard Rustin and Dr. Brittany Cooper.

By Riese| June 3, 2020 | 10 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #307: “I Fall In Love (Cue Your Laughter)”

Topics include Victoria’s Secret, The Americans, gatekeeping in publishing, CollegeHumor, slavery re-enactments, Angola, vaping and so much more!

By Riese| February 14, 2020 | 3 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #306: She Has a Colander On Her Head, Like A Conspiracy Theorist

Topics include Geocities, e-books, the politics of mental health, podcast passivity, Mount Everest’s social climber, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, filming/staging sex scenes and more!

By Riese| January 17, 2020 | 5 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #305: How Various Plaid Shirts Made Their Way Into My Closet

Topics include hangovers, ArtPrize, the George Foreman Grill, Patriotic Millionaires, The Talented Mr Ripley, 100 books that defined the decade, fair food, the year in pivoting to video and so much more!!

By Riese| January 3, 2020 | 9 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #302: Cosmo Tutorials On How to Come Didn’t Make Much Of a Crack In The Bell Jar

Topics include the founding of Patreon, the founding of Poo-Pourri, the writer as influencer, housing discrimination, TurboTax, feminist performance art, disassociating, the Park Slope food co-op, the Zodiac Killer and more!

By Riese| November 22, 2019 | 4 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #301: A Truly Raunchy Line Involving a Sandwich Bun and a Hairdresser

Topics include Phoebe Waller-Bridge, an Air BnB scam, tourism in Iceland, what even is Newsweek anymore, some deportations of history and more! Like an excerpt from Carmen Maria Machado’s new book!

By Riese| November 8, 2019 | 4 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #300: What Are We Doing Here, In This Short Time On This Dying Rock?

Topics include tenacious Florida women, why NBC killed their Weinstein reporting, sexual violence, checking a bag, systemic racism in Milwaukee, circuit parties, the perfect coke dealer and more!

By Riese| October 25, 2019 | 9 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #298: The Way Teenage Relationships Tread That Knife Edge Between Disgust and Desire

Topics include TikTok, Pam Grier, Tavi on Instagram, crystals, murder, Empire Records, sex work, millennial burnout, Stanford and more!

By Riese| September 27, 2019 | 8 Comments
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Things I Read I Love #297: Anyone Who Wears a Carabiner With a Certain Sprezzatura

Topics include BH90210, the cost of Amazon’s next-day delivery, Joe Exotic’s giant tiger zoo, Marianne Williamson, college admissions, lesbian bars, working at Trump Soho and more!

By Riese| September 13, 2019 | 11 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #296: She is Also Tiny and Platinum Blond With a Look of Engineered Disaster About Her

Topics include my favorite TV show Are You The One?, crossword puzzles, air conditioning, an online public meltdown, dooce, swimming, How Things Are at Deadspin, pregnancy, Bumble and so much more!

By Riese| August 30, 2019 | 7 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #294: Nestled Among Fake Flowers and Flourishes of Glitter

Topics include the women who are obsessed with true crime (ahem), “bad teeth,” a very bad doctor, Jia Tolentino, Mic, migrant detention centers, Mariah Carey and so much more!

By Riese| August 2, 2019 | 3 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #292: There Are Chocolate Chips In The Freezer

Topics include Babe dot net, The Pioneer Woman, Judge Judy, queer food, GoFundMe healthcare, clapping back, Cooking: Why?, untying the knot at her throat and so much more!

By Riese| July 5, 2019 | 13 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #291: Through a Dazzlingly Quick Intimacy To Violent Disagreement, Then Silence

Topics include picking/pulling/not coming, the gay neighborhood of Montrose, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, non-profits, gay men walking fast, Bennington in the ’80s, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” abortion and Grease.

By Riese| June 21, 2019 | 7 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #290: Where Commercials For Gardasil Can Appear To Be the Most Realistic Depiction of Women on Television

Topics include Chernobyl, Sassy, Soviet food, Paul Newman salad dressing, growing up in a cult, Tony Robbins, L.A. on film and so much more!

By Riese| May 24, 2019 | 2 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #289: Your Body Turns Off The Gas If You Stop Paying Your Bills.

Topics include Law & Order, LA bookstores, podcasts, Jared’s Galleria of Jewelry, Barilla pasta, the millionaire hermit, the stolen kids of Sarah Lawrence and so much more!

By Riese| May 10, 2019 | 6 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #288: They Emerged To Twist Thirst From A Cloying Wish Into Full-Bodied Desire

Topics include Ramona Quimby, female thirst, dentistry, Christian Moms who make money selling printables on their blogs, murderabilia, women outside, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and more!

By Riese| April 26, 2019 | 12 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #287: It’s Cool How Gay Sex and Stealing Became Twinned Deviances.

Topics include ice cream, Rosie O’Donnell, the summer of scam, freestyle halfpipe skiing, the capitalist takeover of higher education, JT Leroy, marriage, Bob Fosse and more!

By Riese| April 12, 2019 | 7 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #286: It Was That Time Where Everyone Wanted To Be Edgy

Topics include kayaking in Alaska, taking Amtrak across the U.S., Queer Teen Stars, Cathy, Lindy West, frequent flyer mile obsessives, calories, the professional poet and more!

By Riese| March 29, 2019 | 9 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #285: A Person Who Refuses To Try Something Better Is a Person Who Will Never Make Something Good

Topics include rats, being awake during surgery, defining disability, aerial skiing, a deranged mayor in late-90s Connecticut, Luke Perry, college admissions, Fox News, Outdoor Voices and so much more!

By Riese| March 14, 2019 | 3 Comments
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