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Things I Read That I Love #158: A Big, Bright Shining Star

Topics include Ferguson, Boogie Nights, incarcerating victims of domestic violence, sex ed films and racism at The New Republic.

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Dec 18, 2014

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I Believe Jackie: On Credibility, Rape Culture, and Rolling Stone

A 9,000 word Rolling Stone piece about rape culture at the University of Virginia is falling apart at the binding as details of its central narrative, the story of a…

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Dec 6, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #155: I Will Only Bleed Here

Topics include Ferguson, the MFA-to-writing-teacher track, CRACKER BARREL, Uber, The Strand, the Freedom Summer, and so much more!

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Nov 28, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #154: Hides Junk Food All Over Her Bedroom

Topics include international development, Chris Rock, My Little Ponies, water parks, Asian-Americans on TV, the gay wing of the LA County jail, writing POC and MOAR!

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Nov 21, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #153: Feminine Marvelous and Tough

Topics include film dubbing in France, Jimmy’s World, Taco Bell, being a serial killer’s daughter, race in Silicon Valley, Kathy Acker and more!

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Nov 14, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #152: To Make Thunder Where There Was No Lightning

Topics include “redneck reality TV,” cheerleading, Guantánamo, Reality Bites, rehab, Modern farmer, men and feminism and so much more!

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Nov 7, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #151: I Ate The Dirt Along With The Fruit

Topics include American bathrooms, Wikipedia, poverty, Ferguson, cities without cars, Public Relations, local food, reality TV shows about auctions and more!

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Oct 31, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #150: Whatever She Is Fleeing From Will Always Eventually Overtake Her

Topics include Nicki Minaj, the price of black ambition, murder, aging, Nazi hipsters, Los Angeles, TV Talk Show audiences and more!

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Oct 24, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #149: A Place To Feed Those Hungry Skin Receptors

Topics include mass shooter psychology, “Let’s Be Cops,” the Tea Party in Lima, an NYC apartment disaster, the Chilean Miners, Chinese restaurant workers and moar!

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Oct 17, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #147: I Couldn’t Wait To Read Books, Drink Beer, Smoke Pot, Get Laid.

Topics include Tinder, Boy Scouting, sexual assault on college campuses, The Zimmermans, the word “problematic,” Airbnb, Paula Deen and more!

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Oct 3, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #146: The Fumes Of A Magic Marker

Topics include a lot of stuff about race and also rock star’s wives, making things, Star Trek, this app called Slack, the impact of the California drought and more!

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Sep 26, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #145: It’s Gradual and Sad, or Wild and Thrashing

Topics include love, full-figured fashion, depression & sobriety, rape of men in the military, debtor’s prison and more!

Riese —

Sep 19, 2014