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Things I Read That I Love #291: Through a Dazzlingly Quick Intimacy To Violent Disagreement, Then Silence

Topics include picking/pulling/not coming, the gay neighborhood of Montrose, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, non-profits, gay men walking fast, Bennington in the ’80s, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” abortion…

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Jun 21, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #290: Where Commercials For Gardasil Can Appear To Be the Most Realistic Depiction of Women on Television

Topics include Chernobyl, Sassy, Soviet food, Paul Newman salad dressing, growing up in a cult, Tony Robbins, L.A. on film and so much more!

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May 24, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #289: Your Body Turns Off The Gas If You Stop Paying Your Bills.

Topics include Law & Order, LA bookstores, podcasts, Jared’s Galleria of Jewelry, Barilla pasta, the millionaire hermit, the stolen kids of Sarah Lawrence and so much more!

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May 10, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #288: They Emerged To Twist Thirst From A Cloying Wish Into Full-Bodied Desire

Topics include Ramona Quimby, female thirst, dentistry, Christian Moms who make money selling printables on their blogs, murderabilia, women outside, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and more!

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Apr 26, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #287: It’s Cool How Gay Sex and Stealing Became Twinned Deviances.

Topics include ice cream, Rosie O’Donnell, the summer of scam, freestyle halfpipe skiing, the capitalist takeover of higher education, JT Leroy, marriage, Bob Fosse and more!

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Apr 12, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #286: It Was That Time Where Everyone Wanted To Be Edgy

Topics include kayaking in Alaska, taking Amtrak across the U.S., Queer Teen Stars, Cathy, Lindy West, frequent flyer mile obsessives, calories, the professional poet and more!

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Mar 29, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #285: A Person Who Refuses To Try Something Better Is a Person Who Will Never Make Something Good

Topics include rats, being awake during surgery, defining disability, aerial skiing, a deranged mayor in late-90s Connecticut, Luke Perry, college admissions, Fox News, Outdoor Voices and so much more!

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Mar 14, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #284: The Sharpest Pain I Have Ever Felt and a High I’ve Never Matched Since

Topics include lesbian doppelgängers, the lives of facebook moderators, YouTube’s young ASMR stars, Homicide: Death on the Screen, student loans, Elizabeth Holmes and so much more!

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Mar 1, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #283: Wasted Again in the Dark Glow of Post-Breakup Tragic Freedom

Topics include stadium bathrooms, murder, “sportswriting’s filthiest fuck-up,” Heaven’s Gate fashion, handheld gaming, everyone else but you having money, the queer art of f*cking your friends and more!

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Feb 15, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #282: A Couple of Misfit Queer Kids in Matching Black Leather Biker Jackets

Topics include Bryan Singer, toxic YA twitter, Chirstopher Pike, the tell-tale fan, Oscars for racial reconciliation fantasies, sexual assault as male bonding, Lil Tay, Soundcloud rap, sunscreen and more!

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Feb 1, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #281: I Google Myself Every Day to Find Out If I’m Gay Or Not

Topics include what happened to Lindsay Lohan, free giveaways, precocious puberty, sober creativity, The Art of the Pan, The Cauldron, being lost at sea for 51 days, toxic shock syndrome,…

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Jan 18, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love #280: Falling In Love With Her Was Like Falling In Love With a Character I’d Written

Topics include The Apprentice, emotional abuse, the year in dog, HIV/AIDS, really gross murder, bad faith reading, Sheryl Sandberg, Elizabeth Warren, and so much more!

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Jan 4, 2019