What’s the Point of “Fake Accounts”?
One of the best sentences in Fake Accounts stands on its own, separated from the narrator’s musings on dating apps and the 2010s: “At some point you have to admit…
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In Conversation with Sex-Positive Icon Ruby Rare
On the 28th of October, I had a dream-come-true interview with sex-positive, body-positive icon Ruby Rare, who recently released a must-read book on sex education. Filled with wonderful naked people,…
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Why I Love Chick Lit
I’ll be honest—I love chick lit. Those identical pastel paperbacks, the spunky and financially successful heroines, the magical endings straight out of an R-rated Hallmark movie. Chick lit generally encompasses…
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Our Anti-Racist Reading Lists Are Still Kinda Racist
When I watched the straw break the camel’s back and a racial justice movement exploded before my eyes, I compiled a reading list before I went to a protest. My…
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I Joined Noname’s Book Club and You Should Too
On Thursday, June 18th, Noname released “Song 33” in collaboration with producer Madlib. The single is barely over a minute long, wasting no time and pulling no punches regarding J.…
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Writer Ocean Vuong and the Nature of Brokenness
Ocean Vuong’s debut novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a meticulous portrait of brokenness. I’ve found few novels so willing to embrace that brokenness for what it is, to…
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Why Can’t I Read About Myself?
Let’s picture the typical Wattpad story: a high school romance between a bad boy and a nerd, casting the all-too-familiar Francisco Lachowski and Barbara Palvin. Perhaps Stephen James and Nina…
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How to Get Back Into Reading This Summer
I like to think I’m growing into the kind of person younger me would be proud of, but I can’t quite shake the feeling that 14-year-old me who read block-thick…
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