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Things I Read That I Love #318: Eternally Hopeful That This Time There Will Be a Snack

Topics include marrying your platonic best friend, the rise of therapy-speak, COVID in prison, Homecoming at HBCUs, abuse documentaries, the road to terfdom, ranking the muppets and more!

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Apr 16, 2021

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Things I Read That I Love #316: Beach-Ball Buttocks Mimicking The Most Famous Bottom In The World

Topics include a Hollywood con artist, lip-reading, the benefit of nervous breakdowns, ultra-fast fashion, Mrs. Meyer’s soap, writing lesbian sex, Gamestop, Mormon Mommie Bloggers, butt lifts and more!

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Feb 19, 2021

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Things I Read That I Love #314: There Were Many Days In Which Several People Were Typing

Topics include Far Right literature, the Spelling Bee game, influencers traveling during COVID, the pandemic DIY boom, the Folgers Incest Ad, Lean Cuisine, recovery, faking illness on GoFundMe and truly…

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Nov 13, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #313: In A “Peeking Around The Dinner Party Host’s House On Your Way To The Bathroom” Kind of Way

Topics include Black voters, a bad reality TV show, murder, Judith Butler, how we quarantine, the tyranny of chairs, TikTok, Bath & Body Works, the Eco-Yogi slumlords of Brooklyn, Emily…

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Sep 25, 2020

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#BlackLivesMatter: A Longform Reading List

Fifty years of words I liked reading and you will too! Authors include James Baldwin, bell hooks, Kiese Laymon, Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, Bayard Rustin and Dr. Brittany…

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Jun 3, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #307: “I Fall In Love (Cue Your Laughter)”

Topics include Victoria’s Secret, The Americans, gatekeeping in publishing, CollegeHumor, slavery re-enactments, Angola, vaping and so much more!

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Feb 14, 2020

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longform journalism

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Things I Read That I Love #306: She Has a Colander On Her Head, Like A Conspiracy Theorist

Topics include Geocities, e-books, the politics of mental health, podcast passivity, Mount Everest’s social climber, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, filming/staging sex scenes and more!

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Jan 17, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #305: How Various Plaid Shirts Made Their Way Into My Closet

Topics include hangovers, ArtPrize, the George Foreman Grill, Patriotic Millionaires, The Talented Mr Ripley, 100 books that defined the decade, fair food, the year in pivoting to video and so…

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Jan 3, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #302: Cosmo Tutorials On How to Come Didn’t Make Much Of a Crack In The Bell Jar

Topics include the founding of Patreon, the founding of Poo-Pourri, the writer as influencer, housing discrimination, TurboTax, feminist performance art, disassociating, the Park Slope food co-op, the Zodiac Killer and…

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Nov 22, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #301: A Truly Raunchy Line Involving a Sandwich Bun and a Hairdresser

Topics include Phoebe Waller-Bridge, an Air BnB scam, tourism in Iceland, what even is Newsweek anymore, some deportations of history and more! Like an excerpt from Carmen Maria Machado’s new…

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Nov 8, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #300: What Are We Doing Here, In This Short Time On This Dying Rock?

Topics include tenacious Florida women, why NBC killed their Weinstein reporting, sexual violence, checking a bag, systemic racism in Milwaukee, circuit parties, the perfect coke dealer and more!

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Oct 25, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #298: The Way Teenage Relationships Tread That Knife Edge Between Disgust and Desire

Topics include TikTok, Pam Grier, Tavi on Instagram, crystals, murder, Empire Records, sex work, millennial burnout, Stanford and more!

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Sep 27, 2019