Inspired by Maria Bustillos’s “Friendship is Complicated,” this week’s Reading List is about the joy, power and struggles of friendship.
Friends 4 Ever: Five Stories About Friendship
Emily Perper | Longreads | February 1, 2015 | words
Friends 4 Ever: Five Stories About Friendship
Inspired by this week’s Longreads Member Pick (“Friendship is Complicated,” Maria Bustillos), this week’s Reading List is about the joy, power and struggles of friendship.

Inspired by this week’s Longreads Member Pick (“Friendship is Complicated,” by Maria Bustillos), this week’s Reading List is about the joy, power and struggles of friendship.
1. “The Genius of Taylor Swift’s Girlfriend Collection.” (Anne Helen Petersen, BuzzFeed Ideas, January 2015)
From holidaying in Hawaii with Haim to baking cookies with Karlie Kloss, Taylor Swift has amassed a powerful coterie of friends. While I don’t necessarily agree with Petersen’s conclusion in this essay, I appreciate her sharp insight into the world of brand maintenance, female friendship and celebrity status.
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