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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!

By Riese| December 28, 2012 | 7 Comments
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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.

By Riese| December 21, 2012 | 15 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #54: Everything Is Natural Now

Topics include drinking on YouTube, Kiki Kanniball, the Spur Posse, EuroDisney, natural death, censorship, online universities and so much more!

By Riese| December 14, 2012 | 21 Comments
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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!

By Riese| December 7, 2012 | 15 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: “Things I Read That I Love” Edition

Books and magazine/journal subscriptions for people with a special affection for longform journalism!

By Riese| November 30, 2012 | 14 Comments
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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!

By Riese| November 30, 2012 | 16 Comments
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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!

By Riese| November 23, 2012 | 13 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #50: Habitat Habit!

Topics include serial television programs, Mr. Rogers, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, caffeine, underground new york city, boomtown North Dakota, marching band hazing, murder and so much more!

By Riese| November 16, 2012 | 7 Comments
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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.

By Riese| November 10, 2012 | 14 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love: U.S. Presidential Election Edition

Election-related reads! Topics include The Ballot Cops, Obama circa 1993, Joan Didion on John Kerry, “the politics of personality destruction,” Red States/Blue States , the history of voting and so much more!

By Riese| November 5, 2012 | 7 Comments
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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!

By Riese| November 2, 2012 | 4 Comments
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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!

By Riese| October 26, 2012 | 10 Comments
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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!

By Riese| October 19, 2012 | 15 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #45: To The Skin And Bone And Ragshow Of The Heart

Topics include Star Trek TNG, Strong Female Action Heroes, crime reporting, poverty in rural America, being trans and homeless and SO MUCH MORE!

By Riese| October 16, 2012 | 10 Comments
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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!

By Riese| October 5, 2012 | 10 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #43: High Times

Topics include hipster-bashing, Anna Nicole Smith, stolen bikes, writing non-fiction, teaching kids to write, the Gloucester pregnancy “pact” and so much more!

By Riese| September 28, 2012 | 7 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #42: Your Strange Fate

Topics include Kim’s Video, shopping malls, cheating in school, taxes, Burning Man, Bruce Springsteen and, obviously, a horrifying tragedy!

By Riese| September 21, 2012 | 25 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #41: In Claudia’s Handwriting

Topics include surfing, Kraft Dinner, the inherent danger of existing while female, The Babysitters Club, the flood in Pratsville, hardcore and so much more!

By Riese| September 7, 2012 | 9 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #40: Over The Hill And Through The Woods

Topics include Occupy Oakland, Degrassi, alcoholism, surviving, bartending, trolling, Radiohead and hillbilly heroin!

By Riese| August 31, 2012 | 11 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #39: Explain Things To Me

Topics include education, how reported rapes are (mis)handled in DC, reality TV, psychosis, mansplaining, TED, hate crimes and so many other things!

By Riese| August 24, 2012 | 13 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #38: She Hit Send

Topics include Dominique Moceanu, life insurance, Sweet Valley High, Spike Lee, bath salts, Juggalos, life insurance, hipster conservatives and abortion!

By Riese| August 17, 2012 | 17 Comments
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