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Things I Read That I Love #100: I Never Told A Soul, and I Suppose This Alone Says Something.

Topics include HIV, farmer’s markets, the worst serial killer ever, Jay-Z, Salem Witch Trials, slave dwellings, undocumented farm workers, queer sororities and moar!

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Nov 8, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #99: Ending Is Hard But It’s Easier Than Loving You

Topics include a “the girl in the closet” (a terrifying story of child abuse), stripping, the funeral business, 12 Years a Slave, sadness, sweatshops, bell hooks on “Lean In” and…

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Nov 1, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #98: Everything Means Nothing To Me

Topics include Elliot Smith, larping, snuff, Lean In and facebook feminism, the lived history of Concord MA, child sex trafficking, growing up Chinese in West Van and so much more!

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Oct 25, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #97: I Lost My Way, Looking For A Flashlight

Topics include Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Cinnabons, mugshots online, young women in porn, Norman Rockwell, Nina Simone, “white girls” and so much more!

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Oct 19, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #96: More Hospital Room Than Beach At Sunset

Topics include Dave Chapelle, Ryan Murphy, cities for women, Second Life, 4-chan camgirls, journalism internships, participatory television and more!

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Oct 11, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #95: Oh, She’s Instafamous

Topics include dead malls, Mary Gaitskill, fear of clowns, Space Jam, teenage girls on social media, dead malls, ‘Real Life’ and so much more!

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Oct 4, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #94: The Stakes Are High, Why Else Would We Write?

Topics include a face transplant, Janelle Monae, business school, Jodie Foster, mattresses, the men who brought 9/11 home, letters to the editor, last meals, writing advice from Rick Bass and…

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Sep 27, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #93: It Makes No Sense And It Makes Perfect Sense

Topics include SF’s highest-paid call girl, Brownsville, selfies, Aaron Carter, Leif Garrett’s online fandom, love, gentrification, HIV and male power, bartending and moar!

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Sep 20, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #92: More Like Staying Drunk

Topics include Detroit, leaving New York, the illegal online network for discarding unwanted adopted children, toxic hair straightening, bikini waxing, airport security, The O.C., racism, hockey journalism, The History Channel…

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Sep 13, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #91: A Maniacal Power Fantasy That Panders To Female Anger and Fear

Topics include Claire Danes, missionary/colonialist collectors, the death of Kendrick Johnson in Georgia, the Lusty Lady, Gone Girl, Thomas Pynchon, growing up Chinese in America and more!

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Sep 6, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #90: The Narcissistic Stars Of Our Own Lives

Topics include hate crimes, Christian Rock, Marissa Mayer, the evolution of delusions, disability, the Voting Rights Act, Media Takeout, learning how to live and MOAR!

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Aug 30, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #89: But It Was A Myth I Believed In

Topics include assisted living facilities, the militarization of the police, work, bike shops, Intervention, grief, TV ratings, cotton farmer suicides, Woody Allen’s New York and more!

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Aug 23, 2013