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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!

By Riese| May 31, 2013 | 15 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #76: Astro-Ride!

Topics include the Khmer Rouge, crisis pregnancy centers + race-baiting, SamRo, coffee, Little House on the Prairie, grief, growing up gay and Kevyn Aucoin!

By Riese| May 17, 2013 | 14 Comments
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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!

By Riese| May 10, 2013 | 9 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #74: I’m The Dopest Ghost In Town

Topics include the kids of the movie “KIDS,” mental health care, public housing, women in the Middle East, SXSW, escaping North Korea, Texas beauty pageants, a year without internet and more!

By Riese| May 3, 2013 | 6 Comments
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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!

By Riese| April 26, 2013 | 7 Comments
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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!

By Riese| April 19, 2013 | 13 Comments
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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!

By Riese| April 12, 2013 | 4 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #70: We Confront The Mysteries and The Terrors of Life Through Them.

Topics include Vice, meth, makeup, Bally’s, Wal-mart, celebrity culture, sex abuse, Girls of Riyadh, Zanesville, and sex in 1950!

By Riese| April 5, 2013 | 9 Comments
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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!

By Riese| March 29, 2013 | 9 Comments
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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!

By Riese| March 22, 2013 | 12 Comments
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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!

By Riese| March 15, 2013 | 8 Comments
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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.

By Riese| March 8, 2013 | 8 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #65: Ellen Finds A Plumber

Topics include Ellen circa 1998, women in the KKK, the HMS Bounty, high cost medical care, long prison terms and poverty, Adalia Rose, studio photography, child beauty pageants & manufacturing in America.

By Riese| March 1, 2013 | 8 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #64: Giddy, Girlish and Deeply Shallow

Topics include sorority rush, circus sideshow acts, murder, Jeopardy, college in China, Utopian musical communities, the post office, the mall, the pope, the post office and more!

By Riese| February 22, 2013 | 7 Comments
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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!

By Riese| February 15, 2013 | 24 Comments
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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!

By Riese| February 8, 2013 | 10 Comments
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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!

By Riese| February 1, 2013 | 14 Comments
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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!

By Riese| January 25, 2013 | 14 Comments
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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!

By Riese| January 18, 2013 | 14 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #58: Remember Friendster

Topics include mass murder, online dating in 2003, 9/11, anorexia, how Wal-Mart kills people, death of a bad dad, life after a breakup and so much more!

By Riese| January 11, 2013 | 15 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #57: Live From Snowbank City

Topics include snow removal in Montreal, homesteading, faux-survivalism, Honey Boo-Boo, sexual violence in India, temps, Cambodia, AIDS, and so much more!

By Riese| January 4, 2013 | 8 Comments
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