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Things I Read That I Love #237: An Alternative Story In Which We Can Find Love Anywhere We Want To Find It

Topics include US Gymnastics, eating disorders and heartbreak, New Orleans’ racial undertones, Lil Wayne’s prison memoir, Amy Grant, S-Town, Eileen Myles, Roe V Wade and so much more!

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May 5, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #236: Perhaps One Day We Can Meet and Cry, Face to Face

Topics include Rachel Dolezal, transformative justice, Coachella, true love that isn’t true love at all, a new kind of “crowdsourcing,” Slack, and so much more!

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Apr 21, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #223: On The Razor Edge Of His Teenaged Angst

Topics include addiction memoirs, solitary confinement, murder, the ban / the wall, Ulta Beauty, summer, Sarah Schulman, the music of My So-Called Life and more!

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Mar 10, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #222: I Look For Myself In Other Women’s Bodies

Topics include the Olsen twins museum, Mary Gaitskill, taking up space, PewDiePie, the Milo bus, menstrual cups, women’s prisons, airports and so much more!

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Feb 26, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #214: It Was Time To Leave The Noise And The Bodies Behind

Topics include Dominos pizza, Cracker Barrel, leaving New York City, an alcoholic sportswriter, Stitch’s Great Escape, Kesha and SO MUCH MORE

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Nov 4, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #213: Can These Desires and Needs Survive Together

Topics include Dress for Success, OJ Simpson, open marriages, Star Tours, what men love about war, lesbians in the ’90s, a white supremacist who went to college and changed his…

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Oct 21, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #211: Either It’s All Those Drugs I Took In The ’60s Or I’m Really In Love

Topics include Atlantic City, Air Force One on 9/11, John Hughes movies, Edward Albee, Star Trek fandom, porn, kids on the internet and so much more!

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Sep 23, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #208: To Be Free Of Other People’s Bullshit Is To Be Truly Free

Topics include the American Shopping Mall, going to Disneyworld alone, the Tamir Rice case, a killer in Yosemite, aesthetic homogeneity and so much more.

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Aug 12, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #207: The Ideal Woman Has No Appetitie

Topics include suicide in the Mall of America, John Cho, police, genetic sexual attraction, Diane Arbus, Donald Trump’s hotels, musical.ly and more!

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Jul 29, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #206: At Last I Saw A Woman, Younger Than I’ve Ever Been

Topics include Black Lives Matter, catching up with the prisoners whose sentences were commuted by Obama, OJ Simpson circa 2001, Marie Kondo, Bill Cosby, Miami Beach and moar!

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Jul 15, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #202: My Body Was The Grand Canyon, Vast and Hollowed Out

Topics include oxycontin addiction, RENT, sporting goods stores, the science of love, Arby’s, Jodie Foster, the history of gender-segregated public bathrooms and more!

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May 20, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #197: Her Lips Were a Pleasure To Receive A Beer Bottle From

Topics include Debi Thomas, the Mall of America, murder, kids on the sex offender registry, Trader Joe’s, what people smell like, Texts From Jane Eyre and more!

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Mar 11, 2016