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The Sociopath Who Loved Me Enough

“As soon as we met Tara and Tony, our lives morphed to make room for them. Instead of drinking Carol’s parents’ liquor on Friday nights, we went to their apartment…

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Aug 27, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #268: Rolling On a Filthy Bathroom’s Floor Dressed In a Ball Gown

Topics include Lindsay Lohan & David Lynch, politicizing sexual desire, murder, Jewish nostalgia & Dirty Dancing, Anthony Bourdain, Slenderman, escaping Warren Jeffs and so much more!

Riese —

Jul 20, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #267: The Internet Can Turn a Stupid Flirtation Into The Age of Godd*mn Innocence If You Let It

Topics include tumblr, reading Joan Didion in California restaurants, Death Valley, Smarties, crime reporting, Johnny Depp, murder, murder and murder!

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Jul 6, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #263: Spindly and Unkempt as a Manson Girl

Topics include Renting a Family, Easy Rider & Alice’s Restaurant, alcoholism, an imposter!, eating disorders, Brad Renfro, Facebook, Bad TV, Janelle Monae and so much more!

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May 11, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #261: There’s Some Stuff They’d Just Never Do In Their Hometown

Topics include a gun owner thinking twice, bachelorette parties in Nashville, sex in the ’90s, John Hughes, fighting aging with skincare, childhood sexual abuse, Joan Didion, Cardi B and more!

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Apr 13, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #259: The Chardonnay Wedged Between the Orange Juice and the Mayonnaise.

Topics include Chili’s, writing after/through recovery, Andrew Lloyd Weber, alcoholism, “the male glance,” Trump’s Miss Universe gambit, co-living and so much more!

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Mar 16, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #257: Icarus Falls From The Sky While Someone Else Swipes Right

Topics include campus sexual assault, behind-the-scenes footage, Black Panther, vintage sexual harassment, breakups & heartbreak & museums, murder, picky eaters, why are millennials so into astrology and more!

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Feb 16, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #256: Wearing Uniqlo Longjohns As Outside People Clothes

Topics include Dawson’s Creek, The Awl, Soulcycle, Negroni Season, Justin Timberlake in the woods, health care, “Rude,” The New York Times’ Style Section, RuPaul’s Drag Race and so much more!

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Feb 2, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #255: An Extended Exposure Therapy To All The Things You Once Feared.

Topics include Newsies, Katja Blichfeld, the abuse of temps in a Toronto factory, Diana Vreeland, book covers, privileging choicelessness and so much more!

Riese —

Jan 19, 2018

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Things I Read That I Love #254: For That Secret Knowledge Of Which Dykes To Watch Out For

Topics include Missy Elliot, donuts, sexual harassment at the Ford plant, Valerie Solanas, Silicon Valley orgies, murder, “clean eating,” paper and so much more!

Riese —

Jan 5, 2018

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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

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Things I Read That I Love #240: It’s So Frustrating To Me That I’m Not a Rock Star

Topics include Rachel Maddow, Chelsea Manning, the new Ken dolls, “Get Out,” mobile homes, “writing Iranian-American,” Elizabeth Wurtzel, the GOOP summit and more!

Riese —

Jun 23, 2017