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Things I Read That I Love #88: Whatever Was Shattered That Day

Topics include Kiese Laymon, black dolls, police stealing your shit, health care, strong female characters, asset forfeiture, the poorest rich kids in the world and death.

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Aug 16, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #87: The Cranky, Smart Soulmate Every Aspiring Artist Pines For

Topics include Creedmor Psychiatric Center, San Francisco, Jeanette Walls, LSD, Eddie Ellis, The O.C., housesitting, selfies, rape in a Mennonite community, Texas, the lottery and more!

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Aug 9, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #86: An Outsider Is Likely To See Things That Insiders Will Not See

Topics include Kimani Grey, stripping in a boomtown, grief, Reddit and the Boston Bombing, Rodney King, “Sex and the City,” Mary Gaitskill, sexism in the Texas legislature, travel guides and…

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Aug 2, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #85: Cut-Out Dolls For Grown-Up Girls

Topics include Shirley Jackson, paper dolls, disaster reporting in Haiti, HIV/AIDS, the Worst of White Folks, Rick James, exes on social media, working at a men’s magazine and more!

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Jul 26, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #84: What If We Acknowledged Those Fears?

Topics include Walter White, manic pixie dream girls, economics, shyness, Kerry Washington, shyness, Jonestown, racism and mercy, the future of journalism, affirmative action and more!

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Jul 19, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #83: Sometimes I Think, This Is Really Chloë-ish

Topics include Cosby sweaters, depression, The Chive, Chloë Sevigny, Gabby Hoffman, PTSD, murder in San Bernardino County, undocumented immigrant activism and moar!

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Jul 12, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #82: I Hate The Word “Bitch” But I’ve Used It So Many Times In My Head When I’m Thinking About You

Topics include food fluffers, music in prison, abortion, video games, “The Room,” publishing black literary fiction, picky eaters and so much more!

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Jul 5, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #81: If Sophie Had To Choose Between Two Awesome Things

Topics include temp workers, Dennis Rodman, Phish, Kanye, Wilcox County’s first integrated prom, murder, fertility, Mary McCarthy and so much more!

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Jun 28, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #80: Whose Boxers Are These?

Topics include North Korea, gun control, animators from Mormon country, freelancing, the long con, the murder of Jam Master Jay, Brittney Griner, true war stories, indie bookstores and so much…

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Jun 21, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #79: Subterranean Homesick Blues

Topics include Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), web developers, poetry and death, meth, psychic Sylvia Browne, Coyote Ugly, Wikipedia, The Whole Earth Catalog and more!

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Jun 14, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #78: Part High School, Part Rehab, Part Substitute Family

Topics include Lefrack City, UCB, American teeth, selling the South to Southerners, tech money’s influence on The Bay Area, The Bling Ring, The Preppy Murder case, Detroit, killer crushes, missing…

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Jun 7, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #77: Rage, Rage Against The Coming Of The Light

Topics include binge-watching TV, wikipedia, Mary Kay, why The Great Gatsby sucks, Freedomland!, ANTM, Hunter S. Thompson, oversharing, lesbian nightlife romances and more!

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May 31, 2013