Things I Read That I Love #210: The New Sofa Has Nothing To Fear From Me
Topics include Flint, the framing of a PTA mom, perfume, Roger Ailes, the true crime genre, the Upright Citizens Brigade, Miss America, domestic spheres, Winona Ryder and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #209: Take Your Ghastly Revolutionary Ideas Out To The Garden
Topics include Munchausen by proxy and murder, Shop Jeen, every restaurant in Epcot Center, Joanne the Scammer, housing segregation, little people in Hollywood and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #208: To Be Free Of Other People’s Bullshit Is To Be Truly Free
Topics include the American Shopping Mall, going to Disneyworld alone, the Tamir Rice case, a killer in Yosemite, aesthetic homogeneity and so much more.
Things I Read That I Love #207: The Ideal Woman Has No Appetitie
Topics include suicide in the Mall of America, John Cho, police, genetic sexual attraction, Diane Arbus, Donald Trump’s hotels, musical.ly and more!
Things I Read That I Love #206: At Last I Saw A Woman, Younger Than I’ve Ever Been
Topics include Black Lives Matter, catching up with the prisoners whose sentences were commuted by Obama, OJ Simpson circa 2001, Marie Kondo, Bill Cosby, Miami Beach and moar!
Things I Read That I Love #205: It May Not Be ‘Cool’ To Be Sad, But It’s Cool To Be Yourself.”
Topics include Judith Butler, domestic goddesses, the for-profit prison industry, what Uber drivers make, Abigail Fishers, sexism, sad girl fashion and more!
Things I Read That I Love #204: Her Boob Is So Soft It Makes Velvet Feel Like Splinters.
Topics include Kim Kardashian, Hillary Clinton, the (formerly) most liberated woman in America, Blac Chyna, LinkedIn, sex crimes and more.
Things I Read That I Love #203: The Feeling That Your Body Is Running You
Topics include bias risk-predictors employed by sentencing judges, The Rainforest Cafe, Black Trauma Remixed For Your Clicks, journalism, how/why millionaire athletes go broke, IBS, the man with ten wives and more!
Things I Read That I Love #202: My Body Was The Grand Canyon, Vast and Hollowed Out
Topics include oxycontin addiction, RENT, sporting goods stores, the science of love, Arby’s, Jodie Foster, the history of gender-segregated public bathrooms and more!
Things I Read That I Love #201: What Kind Of Grinch Would I Be To Have a Problem With a Bunch of Kids Dancing?
Topics include Cosmopolitan circa 1970, the abuse of mentally ill prisoners, job-hunting, Prince, Franzia, a boy injected with HIV by his father and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #200: Humour Can Be a Callous Protection Against The Terrible
Topics include Tonya / Marcia / Monica / Anita, true crime TV, sugar, marijuana, Ben & Jerrys, rape culture, identity clickbait, Lifetime and more!
Things I Read That I Love #199: A Life-Size Vagina Mascot Runs Around The Field With A Megaphone
Topics include “Men Explain Lolita To Me,” Marcia Clark, Trumplandia, spinsters, the University of Texas Tower shooting, the escort who killed her client in self-defense — I didn’t do this on purpose but this week’s TIRTL is like a treasure trove of kickass female writers.
Things I Read That I Love #198: I Wondered Why Female Violence Was Always So Quick To Turn On Itself.
Topics include gay chefs, Colonel Sanders, gentrification, online dating, tindering across Europe, Instacart, writing about feminism for Playboy and moar!
Things I Read That I Love #197: Her Lips Were a Pleasure To Receive A Beer Bottle From
Topics include Debi Thomas, the Mall of America, murder, kids on the sex offender registry, Trader Joe’s, what people smell like, Texts From Jane Eyre and more!
Things I Read That I Love #196: Apparently I Look Like The Fish-Sandwich Type
Topics include Jay-Z, adult braces, heroin, women & guns, tumblr teens, San Jose, the Titanic, murder, teenagers & social media and more!
Things I Read That I Love #195: Turning From Something Ugly Into Something Beautiful
Topics include PeeWee Herman, Winona Ryder, “Making a Murderer,” dating TV shows, the 1966 University of Texas shooting and moar!
Things I Read That I Love #194: She Wrote My Childhood Before It Happened
Topics include Flint, Margaret Atwood, the business of swinging, being emotionally ambushed by Oprah and everything that came before and after, Hokkaido, Alice Goffman and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #193: I Sincerely Don’t Know Why Poetry Can Be Mortifying But Tattoos Can Be Cool
Topics include emotional nakedness, Scores, douchebag T-Shirts, abusive relationships, remembering a murdered sister, Haruki Murakami’s birthday, Pembroke, Jonathan Franzen and more!
Things I Read That I Love #192: My 20 Favorite Longreads of 2015
I could’ve picked 200 but I just picked 20.
Things I Read That I Love #191: Now We’re Living in Mississippi, Because My Mother Is Insane.
Topics include the questionable existence of a dog-free floor at Amazon, Galway Kinnell, “a black woman walks into a gun show,” the National Association of Professional Women scam, TripAdvisor, The Pleasant Company story and so much more!