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Continue reading →: Ask Katie: AA Is Helping Me, But Should I Listen to Its Critics?Why there are AA naysayers and whether you should pay attention to them—especially if the program is working for you.
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Continue reading →: Exciting Announcement: Anxy Magazine********UPDATE******** The Kickstarter for Anxy Magazine is live!! Please take a look, see what we’re all about, contribute if you can, and share the campaign with your family and friends. We’ve worked so hard on this because we really believe this is a project that can make a difference in the…
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Continue reading →: 7 GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR THIS POLITICAL SEASONfor Book Riot Election season can be overwhelming and this one is no exception. I love following politics but I also hate the amount of nonsense, half-truths, and outright lies that are repeated by all sides during this process. I find myself yearning for something both entertaining and informative, as…
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Continue reading →: New “Ask Katie” Advice Column for The FixI am super excited (and a little terrified) to announce that The Fix is launching an advice column and they’ve asked yours truly to dole out the advice. While I am terrible at so many, many things—the one thing I have managed to do for the last 8+ years is…
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Continue reading →: Hard Candy: The Risks of Flavored Medication for ChildrenFor The Fix When a bottle of children’s acetaminophen can kill a small child, does it make sense to make medicine taste so good?
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Continue reading →: Black Lives Matter: A Reading ListOriginally posted on Longreads: This week’s reading list has three parts. Part One features Black authors writing explicitly about anti-Black police brutality. Part Two features Black authors writing about subjects other than police brutality, because maybe it’s in your best interest not to subject yourself to more mental anguish than is…
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Continue reading →: Boarding School BooksThere is one type of book I will read *almost* regardless of how good the book actually sounds: boarding school books.
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Continue reading →: Don’t Be Shy About Telling Your Librarian You Love EbooksI’ve been a librarian for five years and I worked in libraries for five years before that. In my decade of stack dwelling, I am most frequently asked one of two questions:
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Continue reading →: Let’s Talk About Poop, BabyFor The Establishment Poop. If it manages to find its way into our cultural lexicon, it’s likely the result of a Judd Apatow movie.
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Continue reading →: Addiction is AccidentalThe general public doesn’t understand that addiction is accidental. Choosing to use the substance isn’t accidental, but crossing the line into addiction is.
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