retirement, Piggy, lime-green bedsheets 

Oxford American

 

 

ratty boatshoes, the platonic infinite, sleeping on the couch 

Oxford American

 

 

warblers, vicarious obsession, doomed love

Outside

 

 

19th-century bedfellows, romantic friendship, Appalachia heartache

Oxford American

 

 

RuPaul, mens athleisurewear, eternal queer boyhood

Tin House

 

 

Grindr, Buffalo Wild Wings, playing masc

Eater

 

 

Big Brother auditions, villainy, gay self-hate

Longreads

 

 

West Hollywood, diva pop, belated coming-of-age

Topic

 

 

New England spinsters, Michigan twinks, romantic opting out

Catapult

 

 

binge-eating videos, Eve Babitz, L.A. girl hedonists

The Baffler

 

 

antebellum astronomy, women geniuses, Marilyn Monroe

Lapham's Quarterly

 

 

West Palm Beach, Parisian torment, other people's grandmas

Tin House

 

 

cat-sitting, HGTV hetero-fantasy, vicarious domesticity

Curbed

 

 

bridal game shows, catering hall buffets, queer self-denial

TV Guide

 

 

candle vloggers, suburban YouTube queens, gay glamour

The Awl

 

 

Mob Wives, feminist mobster fictions, confessional redemption

Vice

 

 

Real Housewives, faking cancer, 19th-century sentimentality

Vice

 

 

Scream Queens, gay icons, unraveling femininity

The Atlantic

 

 

reality-TV docu-soaps, bad energy, the new fun

Joyland

 

 

 

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