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Things I Read That I Love #37: Can’t Sleep Write Now

Topics include Nick Drake, the hunt for a missing autistic child, the morning-after pill, nannies, homeless teens in Boystown, teevee preachers, where i write and more!

By Riese| August 10, 2012 | 8 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #36: Merrily We Rollergirl Along

Topics include rhythmic gymnastics, criminal profiling, Canadian tourism in Cuba, racism in casting notices, TomKat, roller derby, Alison Bechdel, sexting and more!

By Riese| August 3, 2012 | 7 Comments
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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!

By Riese| July 27, 2012 | 15 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #34: Frontierland

Topics include medical experiments on prisoners, Nan Goldin, sex in the Olympic Village, war, yoga, ladyblogs, an anti-gay extortion ring, Mormons making money and more!

By Riese| July 20, 2012 | 20 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #33: Girls, Sex, Money

Topics include lesbian enclaves, the worst child neglect story ever, school segregation, the Pulitzer, the “age of girlfriends,” sex in red states vs. blue states, stoned fortysomethings and more!

By Riese| July 13, 2012 | 15 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #32: I’m Collecting You

Topics include book collecting, secret shopping, body image, the value of a college education and so much more!

By Riese| July 6, 2012 | 17 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #31: Working One’s Way Through A Crisis

This week’s topics include bipolar disorder, alcoholism, child abuse, immigration, poverty, deadly amusement park rides and working at the apple store!

By Riese| June 29, 2012 | 23 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #30: Just Like My Lifetime

Topics include Fiona Apple, Pat Tillman, cocaine, bath salts, AA, transitioning, prison and so much more!

By Riese| June 22, 2012 | 19 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #29: Going Back

Topics include lesbian separatism, quitting the drink, the incarceration of an innocent man, the life of an executive in 1955, poverty in Southeastern Kentucky, Orlando police officers and so much more!

By Riese| June 15, 2012 | 15 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #28: Only Hellos

Today’s topics include plane crashes, cannibals, the army, Quiz Bowl, Gossip Girl, transgender children and so much more!

By Riese| June 8, 2012 | 21 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #27: What Have We Done

Topics include tattoos, an ultra-Orthodox anti-internet rally, memes, Noomi Rapace, food stamps, inequality, and travel photography!

By Riese| June 1, 2012 | 11 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #26: Great Power

Topics include Fresno, internet marketing, consumerism vs. crafts, the McWane foundries, Justin Bieber, the opulence of hip-hop, tumblr and so much more!

By Riese| May 26, 2012 | 15 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #25: Everybody Worships

Topics include my thirties, Canadian health care, women’s writing, anti-bullying programs and what the hell to do with your life according to Margaret Atwood and/or David Foster Wallace.

By Riese| May 18, 2012 | 22 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #24: Vice Bust

This week’s topics include Mitt Romney being a jerk, tornadoes, the history of telephones, the psychology of fraud, writing in the dark, paying your way into restaurants and so much more!

By Riese| May 11, 2012 | 14 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #23: A Very Famous Jersey Number

This week’s topics include serial killers who drive trucks, the armpit of America, the self-esteem of teenage girls, Lorrie Moore, the mirror and couponing!

By Riese| May 4, 2012 | 21 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love: Writers Writing About Writing

Here are some of my favorite things I’ve ever read on the internet about writing!

By Riese| April 27, 2012 | 7 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #22: A Nice Day For a Daydream

Topics include Carl Sagan explaining why he smokes weed, The Great Zucchini, an innocent man on death row, The Huffington Post, the cost of being a lady writer in NYC and The War Against Youth.

By Riese| April 20, 2012 | 11 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #21: Eat, Sleep, Read

This week’s topics include gay reparation therapy, online sports message boards, Thomas Kinkade, Suzanne Collins and being a better writer!

By Riese| April 13, 2012 | 13 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #20: Happy Birds

Topics include “a Web Site named Livejournal”, Münchausen by internet, the publishing, industry risky writing, teaching film in prison and Angry Birds.

By Riese| April 6, 2012 | 17 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #19: Are You Experienced?

Topics include The Daily Mail, Treyvon Martin, Dartmouth fraternity hazing, wilderness camps for troubled teens, bookstores and so much more!

By Riese| March 30, 2012 | 18 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #18: So I Can Vote

Topics include Xanax, Trayvon Martin, waitressing, dystopian fiction, David Sedaris, the HBO show “Girls” and “The Jimmy McNulty Gambit.”

By Riese| March 26, 2012 | 14 Comments
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