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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

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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 #194: She Wrote My Childhood Before It Happened

Topics include Flint, Margaret Atwood, the business of swinging, being emotionally ambushed by Oprah and everything that came before and after, Hokkaido, Alice Goffman and so much more!

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Jan 29, 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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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 #188: I’m Making a Fool Of Myself, and I Can’t Get Out Of It

Topics include Mary Gaitskill, Terri Gross, witch-hunts, The Church of Satan, murder, Todd Marinovich, pork, Times Square, Adam Lambert fandom and so much more!

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Nov 6, 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