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Things I Read That I Love #315: The Cult Thing Was Real, But In a Positive Way

Topics include your Grandma’s couch, credit card points, SoulCycle, Yoga With Adriene, Fran Lebowitz, the year in self-improvement, filicide, how unhoused teens are coping in locked-down New York and so…

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Jan 15, 2021

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Things I Read That I Love #314: There Were Many Days In Which Several People Were Typing

Topics include Far Right literature, the Spelling Bee game, influencers traveling during COVID, the pandemic DIY boom, the Folgers Incest Ad, Lean Cuisine, recovery, faking illness on GoFundMe and truly…

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Nov 13, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #313: In A “Peeking Around The Dinner Party Host’s House On Your Way To The Bathroom” Kind of Way

Topics include Black voters, a bad reality TV show, murder, Judith Butler, how we quarantine, the tyranny of chairs, TikTok, Bath & Body Works, the Eco-Yogi slumlords of Brooklyn, Emily…

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Sep 25, 2020

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Things I Read That I Loved #312: The Key Word is “Oneself,” Which Is Irresistible To 20-Year-Olds

Topics include YouTuber adoptions, romance novels, moldy jam, Sarah Schulman, the future of the fashion business is sweatpants, supermarket sweep and so much more!

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Aug 21, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #311: As If I Were a Train and the Last Page Was Anna Karenina

Topics include Dollar Stores, Black media, Peak comfort TV, a 16-year-old model in the 90s, Hamilton, racial disparities in coronavirus cases, Ziwe Fumudoh, the primaries and so much more!

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Jul 17, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #310: Eight Minutes Of Scream-Talking The Coolest Things You Can Think Of

Topics include nannies during COVID, The Chive’s “bro bait” website, Val Kilmer, Shaker Heights, Sesame Street, making adult friends, women in criminal justice films and so much more!

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May 8, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #309: Like The Cone With Flowers Coming Out of it to Look Like Ice Cream

Topics include Kinfolk Magazine, the Jazz vs Thunder no-game, 24 hours as EMTS during coronavirus, the opioid crisis, chain pharmacies, Estonia, Katie Porter and so much more!

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Apr 10, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #308: I Have Spent Many Lonely Nights Zombie-ing Around the Target on Flamingo

Topics include Katie Hill, a kickstarter backpack, amusement parks,Natasha Lyonne, Las Vegas and so much more!

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Mar 13, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #307: “I Fall In Love (Cue Your Laughter)”

Topics include Victoria’s Secret, The Americans, gatekeeping in publishing, CollegeHumor, slavery re-enactments, Angola, vaping and so much more!

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Feb 14, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #306: She Has a Colander On Her Head, Like A Conspiracy Theorist

Topics include Geocities, e-books, the politics of mental health, podcast passivity, Mount Everest’s social climber, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, filming/staging sex scenes and more!

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Jan 17, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #305: How Various Plaid Shirts Made Their Way Into My Closet

Topics include hangovers, ArtPrize, the George Foreman Grill, Patriotic Millionaires, The Talented Mr Ripley, 100 books that defined the decade, fair food, the year in pivoting to video and so…

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Jan 3, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #304: I Want to Pretend That I’m Cooler Than Crying About The Velveteen Rabbit

It’s really hot in Phoenix, Tinder as small talk purgatory, Anna Delvey, Millennials not afraid of death, Instagram face, Hallmark Movies, racism in banking and more!

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Dec 20, 2019