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Things I Read That I Love #283: Wasted Again in the Dark Glow of Post-Breakup Tragic Freedom

Topics include stadium bathrooms, murder, “sportswriting’s filthiest fuck-up,” Heaven’s Gate fashion, handheld gaming, everyone else but you having money, the queer art of f*cking your friends and more!

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Feb 15, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #282: A Couple of Misfit Queer Kids in Matching Black Leather Biker Jackets

Topics include Bryan Singer, toxic YA twitter, Chirstopher Pike, the tell-tale fan, Oscars for racial reconciliation fantasies, sexual assault as male bonding, Lil Tay, Soundcloud rap, sunscreen and more!

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Feb 1, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #280: Falling In Love With Her Was Like Falling In Love With a Character I’d Written

Topics include The Apprentice, emotional abuse, the year in dog, HIV/AIDS, really gross murder, bad faith reading, Sheryl Sandberg, Elizabeth Warren, and so much more!

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Jan 4, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #279: Surly Twentysomethings Resembling Peter Pan’s Lost Boys If the Lost Boys Were Girls

Topics include murder, a bonkers Christmas light fight, Brendan Fraser, squatty potties, sunburnt Australia, a ’90s San Francisco dyke “gang,” top surgery, why killers kill, alcoholism and so much more!

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Dec 21, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #278: Drunk In The Taco Bell Drive Thru, I Kiss It Directly On Its Bony Mouth

Topics include taxidermy, a child sex trafficking ring engineered by a very rich assh*le, Heathers (the movie), murder, a cruise for cryptocurrency lovers, Lolita, weird online shopping, the Jewish American…

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Dec 7, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #277: When Love Contains Dirty Sex and Not Without Humor

Topics include The National Enquirer, Anne Frank, Larry Nasser and USA gymnastics, how to save a life, our lives on a mattress, food writing, ballet, teen tv dramas and The…

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Nov 23, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #276: Thelma, Too, Has an Unquenchable Thirst

Topics include Erotic Photo Hunt, Dorothy Allison, school lunch, alt-right extremists, The Spotted Pig, “People in Trouble,” murder on the Appalachian trail, and so much more!

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Nov 9, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #275: The Basic Self-Estrangement of Growing Up

Topics include being nocturnal, The Virgin Suicides, bookstores, the tragic death of a sex worker in Queens, video game addiction, Darius Miles, More to Me, life after exoneration and more!

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Oct 26, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #274: Sheila Was Such a Fucking Bitch It Was Awesome

Topics include The Good Place, The English Patient, child abuse, Dr. Death (again, sorry!), working at Disneyland, “radical sex,” ’90s webzines and so much more!

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Oct 12, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #273: Books In Which Measurable Cerebral Activity Is Virtually Absent.

Topics include Hello Kitty, female TV detectives, sexual assault, Maya Rudolph, Puerto Rico becoming a tax haven for the rich, obesity, parties in the 80s, and more!

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Oct 1, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #272: Teenagers Find Adult-Free Places The Way Rain Runs Downhill

Topics include Dr. Death aka Christopher Duntsch, old-school video cameras, the ballroom scene, murder, Supershe island, Why the President Must Be Impeached, the death of Scout Schultz, porn pictures shows…

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Sep 14, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #271: Academic Celebrity Soaks Up Blood Like a Pair of Thinx

Topics include the Avital Ronnell case, “blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia,” airplane hijacking, disaster tourism, Otto Warmbier, Myers-Briggs, the war on drugs, stripping in Portland, what it’s like to be…

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Aug 31, 2018