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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!

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Dec 8, 2017

literature

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!

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Nov 24, 2017

literature

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…

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Nov 10, 2017

literature

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!

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Oct 27, 2017

literature

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.

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Sep 29, 2017

literature

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,…

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Sep 15, 2017

literature

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!

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Sep 1, 2017

literature

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.

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Aug 18, 2017

literature

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…

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Aug 4, 2017

literature

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…

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Jul 21, 2017

literature

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…

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Jul 7, 2017

literature

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!

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Jun 9, 2017