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Things I Read That I Love #243: You Feel Like This Woman Is Crawling Towards You

Topics include The New Hollywood, Oakland losing its artist communities, LaCroix, colorism, content marketing, queers in the country, Liz Smith, the family secrets that emerge from DNA testing and A…

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Aug 4, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #242: One By One I Am Letting Go Of The Things That Killed Me

Topics include murder, Uber, R Kelly, people getting lost and dying in National Parks, the child molestation scandal on the isolated Pitcairn Island, fast fashion, how Gotham gave us Donald…

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Jul 21, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #241: She Didn’t At All Like Being Charmed Out Of A Rageful State

Topics include the heroin epidemic in West Virginia, really expensive weddings, eczema, sexual abuse in a Baptist mission, Panda Express, teaching while black, A League of Their Own, the murders…

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Jul 7, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #240: It’s So Frustrating To Me That I’m Not a Rock Star

Topics include Rachel Maddow, Chelsea Manning, the new Ken dolls, “Get Out,” mobile homes, “writing Iranian-American,” Elizabeth Wurtzel, the GOOP summit and more!

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Jun 23, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #239: All Of Us In The Same Car, Outside The Same Mall

Topics include the loneliness of Donald Trump, queer suicidality, Hillary Clinton, Ghost World, the “literary brat pack,” Roxane Gay, ’90s pre/adolescence and so much more!

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Jun 9, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #238: Mythological Teen Goddesses Haunting Texas Supermarkets.

Topics include Twin Peaks, the Menendez Brothers murders, white supremacy, the artwashing of Boyle Heights, Richard Nixon, waterparks, “The Perils of Privilege” and so much more!

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May 26, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #237: An Alternative Story In Which We Can Find Love Anywhere We Want To Find It

Topics include US Gymnastics, eating disorders and heartbreak, New Orleans’ racial undertones, Lil Wayne’s prison memoir, Amy Grant, S-Town, Eileen Myles, Roe V Wade and so much more!

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May 5, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #236: Perhaps One Day We Can Meet and Cry, Face to Face

Topics include Rachel Dolezal, transformative justice, Coachella, true love that isn’t true love at all, a new kind of “crowdsourcing,” Slack, and so much more!

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Apr 21, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #235: Suddenly, Our Date Was Not For Us; It Was For Him

Topics include Donald Trump being full of lies, Disneyland’s 50th anniversary, leaving, Lolita, California, Clifton’s Cafeteria, slot machines, Alexa and so much more!

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Apr 7, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #234: I’d Just Been To Burning Man and Was Feeling Very Fluid

Topics include serial killers, gay loneliness, THINX, cults, Mount Rushmore, marijuana delivery, the cost of childcare, “The Kiss” and so much more!

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Mar 24, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #223: On The Razor Edge Of His Teenaged Angst

Topics include addiction memoirs, solitary confinement, murder, the ban / the wall, Ulta Beauty, summer, Sarah Schulman, the music of My So-Called Life and more!

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Mar 10, 2017

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Things I Read That I Love #222: I Look For Myself In Other Women’s Bodies

Topics include the Olsen twins museum, Mary Gaitskill, taking up space, PewDiePie, the Milo bus, menstrual cups, women’s prisons, airports and so much more!

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Feb 26, 2017