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Things I Read That I Love #144: We Say No Because We Are Grumpy and Have Not Slept Properly

Topics include horror in New Orleans, late ’70s gay life in Kansas, family farming, turning 14 in Cincinnati, Teach for America and more!

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Sep 12, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #143: What You Fight For, You Love.

Topics include the writing business, clothes & class, memes & misogynoir, Mary Beard, earthquakes, finding a place to be gay and so much more!

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Sep 5, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #142: Like A Freaky Connie Francis With A Death Wish

Topics include the last true hermit, therapy, Cheryl Strayed, “the future of college,” the death penalty, summer jams and more!

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Aug 29, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #141: Just Give Me Room To Exist Both In The Shit And Stars

Topics include Hook, The Ivy League, Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash, sex work, crossword puzzles, Gurl.com and moar!

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Aug 22, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #140: A Girl In Black Eyeliner and High-Top Sneakers

Topics include women in country music, pedophilia, the Estonia ferry sinking, Magnolia, retail scheduling, confessional writing, Ferguson and more.

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Aug 15, 2014

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Things I Read That I Loved #139: We Lean Into Love, Even In The Most Hideous Circumstances

Topics include Mary Karr, YouTube rooms, the ferry Sewol sinking, murder, child abuse, Kara Swisher, Ed Albee and moar!

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Aug 8, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #138: I Am Perfectly Normal And Fine, I Told Myself

Topics include the new face of hunger, The Olive Garden, CeCe McDonald, college rankings, sitcom cities, Amway, PTSD, “hiking while black” and moar!

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Aug 1, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #137: We Don’t Do Dumb Things Like That To Start The Day

Topics include the case for reparations as explained by Ta-Nehisi Coates, AM Homes, a Vine romance gone wrong, how to be a writer, turning 30 and more!

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Jul 25, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #136: I Fell So Hard for Tomato Juice One Summer

Topics include class rage, the crash of EgyptAir 990, the cruise ship industry, elephant abuse at the circus, Justin Bieber, falling in love with everything and more!

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Jul 18, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #135: Too South To Be North and Too North To Be South

Topics include sex work in Rio, a polyamory conference, a men’s rights conference, Adam Levine, the two Baltimores, student debt and moar!

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Jul 11, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #134: The Anti-Coloring Book

Topics include John Green, being bipolar, large-scale organic farming, letters from arsonist, joint custody, Sandy Hook, Koh Phangan, Michael Jackson and MOAR!

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Jul 4, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #133: I Cannot Confirm or Deny That I May Have Kissed Two or Three or Maybe Even Five of Them

Topics include Vintage Black Glamour, Dov Charney & Terry Richardson & Vice, hospice care, The Mighty Ducks trilogy, summer matinees and more!

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Jun 27, 2014