Your Spring Reading Horoscope
New season, new star alignments to guide your reading life
May 24 - Katie Robinson
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Support7 Books That Show a Different Side of Horse Girls
A new breed of horse girls who are dirty, daring, and feminist as hell
May 23 - Courtney Maum
Reading Lists
I Developed An Eating Disorder. Then I Became Pro-Choice
Marya Hornbacher’s “Wasted” introduced me to the importance of bodily autonomy when I needed it most
May 20 - Anna Rollins
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Ada Limón Honors the Sacrifices of Our Ancestors
The poet explores joy, survival, grief, and daily life in "The Hurting Kind"
May 20 - Angela María Spring
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Is My Husband Having an Affair With Me?
"The Complex," flash fiction by Scott Limbrick
May 23 - Scott Limbrick
Fiction
Adopt a Cat for the Global Collapse
"It Is What It Is" by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, recommended by Electric Literature
May 18 - Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
RR Issue No. 522
Where’s Waldo of Eternal Damnation
"The Butt Song from Hell," musings on Bosch by Marci Rae Johnson
May 16 - Marci Rae Johnson
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