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Things I Read That I Love #173: Blame Our Generation For Overanalyzing Everything

Topics include being childless by choice, “white trash food,” Christopher Columbus the mass murderer, Hillary Clinton, the Millennials’ Sexual Revolution, gun violence and more!

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Apr 17, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #172: A Life Not Quite Mine

Topics include The Bachelor, supermax prisons, Robert Durst’s futon, Brittney Spears, being a black cop, working at Hardee’s, Comcast, murder, Flawless and moar!

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Apr 3, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #171: All Of My Fellow Sad Young Literary Girls

Topics include Detroit, Robert Durst, homelessness in San Francisco, lesbians falsely imprisoned on sex abuse charges, Joan Didion and more!

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Mar 20, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #170: Like The Truth Was Such A Pleasure To Step into

Topics include race in Silicon Valley, Ophelia, the Famous Writers School, The Jinx and Serial, the beginnings of the North American slave trade and more!

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Mar 13, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #169: More Stories We Tell Ourselves In Order to Live

Topics include same-sex adoption, the 50 Shades movie, Keurig cups, the Ferguson Police Department, Susan Berman, the missing Malaysia Airlines flight and moar!

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Mar 6, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #168: Profound Shame And Fantastic Imagination

Topics include this business of art, tupperware, David Carr, The New York Times, Miranda July, for-profit foster care, arson science and moar!

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Feb 27, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #167: The Dark Fruits Of The Life I Had Chosen

Topics include showbiz seniors, independent Black American film-making, genetic sexual attraction, prostitution in Germany and so much more! Also an essay by the late David Carr.

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Feb 20, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #166: She Wished She Could Grab The Happiness

Topics include the Albuquerque police department, Mary Gaitksill, 50 Shades of Grey, how San Francisco looks in “Looking,” Sweden, a letter from a death row inmate and more!

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Feb 13, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #165: We Are Totally Obsessed With Our Stomachs

The National review on its own racism, queering makeup, The John Wayne Gacy Files, defending awful humans in court, Casey Kasem, Broad City and more!

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Feb 6, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #164: Being Underestimated Is Something Most Women Have In Common

Topics include Dollywood, women writers, migrant farmers, Dorothy Allison, the Nigerian schoolgirls who escaped Boko Haram, the American military and more!

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Jan 30, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #163: An Off-White Fan On The Off-White Ceiling

Topics include a childhood on codeine, Marsha Mehran, Fruitvale, prison labor, a face transplant, The Mission in San Francisco and moar!

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Jan 23, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #162: I Suspect That Everyone I Know Might Reject Me At Any Moment

Topics include Nicholas Sparks, the day she left her son in the car, The Dead Dad Club, IKEA, Pam & Tommy and moar!

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Jan 16, 2015