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Things I Read That I Love #196: Apparently I Look Like The Fish-Sandwich Type

Topics include Jay-Z, adult braces, heroin, women & guns, tumblr teens, San Jose, the Titanic, murder, teenagers & social media and more!

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Feb 26, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #195: Turning From Something Ugly Into Something Beautiful

Topics include PeeWee Herman, Winona Ryder, “Making a Murderer,” dating TV shows, the 1966 University of Texas shooting and moar!

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Feb 12, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #193: I Sincerely Don’t Know Why Poetry Can Be Mortifying But Tattoos Can Be Cool

Topics include emotional nakedness, Scores, douchebag T-Shirts, abusive relationships, remembering a murdered sister, Haruki Murakami’s birthday, Pembroke, Jonathan Franzen and more!

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Jan 15, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #192: My 20 Favorite Longreads of 2015

I could’ve picked 200 but I just picked 20.

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Jan 1, 2016

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215 Of The Best Longreads Of 2015 — All Written By Women

This should keep your brain busy for quite some time.

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Dec 29, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #191: Now We’re Living in Mississippi, Because My Mother Is Insane.

Topics include the questionable existence of a dog-free floor at Amazon, Galway Kinnell, “a black woman walks into a gun show,” the National Association of Professional Women scam, TripAdvisor, The…

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Dec 18, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #190: I Am Not Writing A Novel Called “1994” About A Young Woman In An Office Park In a Provincial Town

This is an especially good installment! Topics include disruptive activism, not writing, pandering to men, gentrification, Hillary Clinton’s relationship with black voters, church sex abuse and more.

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Dec 4, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #189: How Can She Be That Pretty and That Nice?

Topics include private policing in Detroit, The Hunger Games, AirBnB, the Troubled Teen boot camp, women’s prison, Zola’s true story, being a guest star on “Friends” and moar!

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Nov 20, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #187: I’m Hiding From My Life, What Else?

Topics include the battle for the soul of Oakland, getting rid of tipping, the sex lives of college students, Terence Trent D’Arby, dying alone, the thirst of California and Ryan…

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Oct 23, 2015

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Things That I Read That I Love #186: As If They Had Just Been Waiting For Us To Ask

Topics include not having children, Nicki Minaj, the black family in the age of mass incarceration, Bernie Sanders, Ina Garten, the Tonys, a gay commune and more!

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Oct 9, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #184: It Seemed Everyone, Even The Moon, Was Laughing and Drunk.

Topics include working at Disney, the real lives of Sugar Daddies, Michael Derrick Hudson in context, the ghost town of Bodie, Live Aid, an essay that made me cry and…

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Sep 11, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #180: It’s Never Not My Fault That I Knocked You Off The Chair

Topics include porn stars, the murder of an unarmed homeless black man, The Runaways, Ta-Nehisi Coates, brand-led fake holidays and DigiTour.

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Jul 24, 2015