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Things I Read That I Love #252: I Loved the Helpless People I Loved

Topics include the Santa Ana winds, murder, Weinstein’s Complicity Machine, sandwiches, black residents targeted by jaywalking (etc) tickets in Florida, “trailer trash,” IKEA cafeterias and so much more!

By Riese| December 8, 2017 | 8 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #251: To Stand in a Shadowless Field in Three Layers of Tweed

Topics include being Midwestern, Second Life, restorative nostalgia, getting an abortion in South Dakota, Chuck E Cheese, Andrew Cunanan, Manson bloggers and so much more!

By Riese| November 24, 2017 | 13 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #250: Their Weirdness Gives Them Psychic Powers and Untouchable Brilliance

In addition to telling you about this app I like, this week’s TIRTL involves stories on topics including Harvey Weinstein, a thriving small town in Iowa, girls doing murder in the woods, mall kiosks, going missing in Alaska, Sarah Polley, Power Point and more!

By Riese| November 10, 2017 | 13 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #249: Ceiling Fans They Can Swing From Or Whatever.

Topics include Cher, Oxy, Mattresses, Cape Coral, Mackenzie Davis, TGI Fridays, TV finales, Tiny House Hunters and more!

By Riese| October 27, 2017 | 9 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #248: Good F*cking Luck Fighting Off Those Bowls of Baby Snickers.

Topics include The Olive Garden, Harvey Weinstein, domestic violence, Kink.com, Dirty John the con artist, an immersive Casper mattress experience, essential oils and more!

By Riese| October 13, 2017 | 14 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #247: A Pit of Pink Snakes That Will Inject Me With Pink Venom

Topics include group chat, murder, Jamaica High School, Rosé, Basic Instinct, libraries, the injustice of the criminal justice system, why cops shoot and more.

By Riese| September 29, 2017 | 4 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #246: To Be A Work-in-Progress Is Nearly Unacceptable

Topics include Taylor Swift, Dylan Roof, where your Forever 21 shirts get made, Colin Kaepernick, reading Jane Eyre while black, Milk Bar, the sorrow and shame of the accidental killer, and more.

By Riese| September 15, 2017 | 18 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #245: Listening to a Sad Song Can Become a Way of Pushing on a Bruise

Topics include sorority fashions, Taylor Swift, plus-size fashion, being a minority in start-up media, that Piece of Shit Joe Arpaio, Kathy Griffin, emo and more!

By Riese| September 1, 2017 | 14 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #244: How We Want To Taste, How We Wish To Be Known.

Topics include women in the KKK, the Confederate flag, women’s magazines as aspirational employment centers, smartphones & teenagers, Captain EO, murder, the stories we tell ourselves and more.

By Riese| August 18, 2017 | 6 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #243: You Feel Like This Woman Is Crawling Towards You

Topics include The New Hollywood, Oakland losing its artist communities, LaCroix, colorism, content marketing, queers in the country, Liz Smith, the family secrets that emerge from DNA testing and A TURKEY THAT LIVED ON MY STREET.

By Riese| August 4, 2017 | 10 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #242: One By One I Am Letting Go Of The Things That Killed Me

Topics include murder, Uber, R Kelly, people getting lost and dying in National Parks, the child molestation scandal on the isolated Pitcairn Island, fast fashion, how Gotham gave us Donald Trump and so much more!

By Riese| July 21, 2017 | 8 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #241: She Didn’t At All Like Being Charmed Out Of A Rageful State

Topics include the heroin epidemic in West Virginia, really expensive weddings, eczema, sexual abuse in a Baptist mission, Panda Express, teaching while black, A League of Their Own, the murders of TWOC in Detroit and so much more.

By Riese| July 7, 2017 | 31 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #240: It’s So Frustrating To Me That I’m Not a Rock Star

Topics include Rachel Maddow, Chelsea Manning, the new Ken dolls, “Get Out,” mobile homes, “writing Iranian-American,” Elizabeth Wurtzel, the GOOP summit and more!

By Riese| June 23, 2017 | 12 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #239: All Of Us In The Same Car, Outside The Same Mall

Topics include the loneliness of Donald Trump, queer suicidality, Hillary Clinton, Ghost World, the “literary brat pack,” Roxane Gay, ’90s pre/adolescence and so much more!

By Riese| June 9, 2017 | 7 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #238: Mythological Teen Goddesses Haunting Texas Supermarkets.

Topics include Twin Peaks, the Menendez Brothers murders, white supremacy, the artwashing of Boyle Heights, Richard Nixon, waterparks, “The Perils of Privilege” and so much more!

By Riese| May 26, 2017 | 8 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #237: An Alternative Story In Which We Can Find Love Anywhere We Want To Find It

Topics include US Gymnastics, eating disorders and heartbreak, New Orleans’ racial undertones, Lil Wayne’s prison memoir, Amy Grant, S-Town, Eileen Myles, Roe V Wade and so much more!

By Riese| May 5, 2017 | 10 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #236: Perhaps One Day We Can Meet and Cry, Face to Face

Topics include Rachel Dolezal, transformative justice, Coachella, true love that isn’t true love at all, a new kind of “crowdsourcing,” Slack, and so much more!

By Riese| April 21, 2017 | 20 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #235: Suddenly, Our Date Was Not For Us; It Was For Him

Topics include Donald Trump being full of lies, Disneyland’s 50th anniversary, leaving, Lolita, California, Clifton’s Cafeteria, slot machines, Alexa and so much more!

By Riese| April 7, 2017 | 12 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #234: I’d Just Been To Burning Man and Was Feeling Very Fluid

Topics include serial killers, gay loneliness, THINX, cults, Mount Rushmore, marijuana delivery, the cost of childcare, “The Kiss” and so much more!

By Riese| March 24, 2017 | 19 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #223: On The Razor Edge Of His Teenaged Angst

Topics include addiction memoirs, solitary confinement, murder, the ban / the wall, Ulta Beauty, summer, Sarah Schulman, the music of My So-Called Life and more!

By Riese| March 10, 2017 | 8 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #222: I Look For Myself In Other Women’s Bodies

Topics include the Olsen twins museum, Mary Gaitskill, taking up space, PewDiePie, the Milo bus, menstrual cups, women’s prisons, airports and so much more!

By Riese| February 26, 2017 | 22 Comments
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