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Things I Read That I Love #339: Nerd Clusters, Love Is Blind, Competitive Cheerleading, the Free Returns Industry and More

Topics include “border theater” in Texas, the rise of Nerds Clusters, the WNBA, regional McDonalds’ cuisine, behind the scenes at Love is Blind, how the Fentanyl crisis is harming teens,…

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Nov 1, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #338: Veneer Regret, Yelp Reviews, True Crime Conventions and Casino Carpeting

Caity Weaver on the tyranny of the penny, Roxane Gay on TikTok rabbit holes and more longreads for you including pieces on CrimeCon, the ubiquity of Yelp reviews, why therapists…

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Sep 20, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #337: Getting Your Ex Back, Trendy Baby Names, Subway Commercials, Etc

Topics include the rise of romance bookstores, the rise of the get-your-ex-back industry, the first celebrity chef, Subway commercials, the Hard Rock Cafe, trendy baby names and more!

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Jul 12, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #336: The Brat Pack, Buying Sperm, Conversational AI and Streaming Wars

Annie Hamilton befriends Tavi Gevinson and gets unhinged about it, the future of streaming, literary it-girls, MTV’s “The Real World,” Colleen Hoover has writer’s block, Kindbody sucks, a really funny…

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Jun 28, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo

Andrea Long Chu on the critic and her publics, Rich Juzwiak on quitting, Caity Weaver on Flo from Progressive. Also: the re-ascendence of large pants, Kowloon Walled City, High Point…

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Mar 15, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces

Patricia Lockwood meets the pope, Leslie Jamison has a baby and gets divorced. Also: going to Disneyworld but not giving up your data, hunting for a perfect prosthetic, the Iron…

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Feb 9, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #333: Erewhon, Melrose Place, The Bowel Unit, Blurred Lines and Crosswords

Ruby Tandoh on selling the seaside, nobody knows what’s happening online anymore, Caity Weaver looks for Tom Cruise near the airport, Patricia Lockwood takes her husband to the Bowel Unit,…

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Dec 22, 2023

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Things I Read That I Love #332: Massage Parlors, Daily Harvest, Climbing, Branson, Britney and More

Topics include the late shift at a Toronto massage parlor, Baptist Vegas, the New Ken circa 2017 by Caity Weaver, Buy Nothing, Daily Harvest, a missing girl in the Ozarks,…

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Aug 4, 2023

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Things I Read That I Love #331: To Live In a Theme Park Without Even Realizing It

Topics include romance scammers, Keke Palmer, the migrant ship, Lorrie Moore, affirmative action, the streaming problem, Lorrie Moore, the Barbie IP and more!

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Jul 14, 2023

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Things I Read That I Love #330: Titanic, Top Chef, Jeopardy, Libraries, Marvel, BookTok and the Fake Sherlock

Topics include a Top Chef oral history, the fake Sherlock, lost Jeopardy tapes, the Costa Concordia disaster, libraries, Bridget Jones, re-watching Titanic, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fictions from the lesbian…

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Jun 23, 2023

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Things I Read That I Love #329: Goop Cruising, YouTube Tween Cults, Amy’s Kitchen, Botched Plastic Surgery, Et Al

Topics include a novelist who lied about being Cuban, shopping on Temu, shifting science on alcohol consumption, Elizabeth Holmes, the Goop Cruise and more!

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May 12, 2023

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Things I Read That I Love #328: You Never Called That Girl Back Even Though You Were Dating

Topics include the mall, Tinder, Gabby Petito, the abuse scandal at an acclaimed L.A high school, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Crime Junkie, amusement parks, dog breeds and more!

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Sep 16, 2022