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Shannon Reed
Shannon Reed is a writer and professor in Pittsburgh. Her credits besides McSweeney’s include The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, Real Simple, Poets & Writers, and many more. Her first book, Why Did I Get a B?, And Other Mysteries We’re Discussing in the Faculty Lounge, will be published on June 30, 2020.
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August 19, 2016Classic College Movies Updated for the Adjunct Era
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June 16, 2016A Helpful Guide to Lesser-Known Religious Affiliations
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February 1, 2016The Campaigns They Carried
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November 10, 2015Other Vehicular Styles of Parenting
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October 9, 2015Drinking Games for Non-Drinkers
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May 21, 2015Bechdel Test-Inspired Rules for Other Cartoonists
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April 27, 2015Hitchcock After Therapy
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February 20, 2015If Critics Wrote About the Male Best Director Nominees the Same Way They Write About Selma Director Ava DuVernay
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October 3, 2014Security Questions for Single, Childless People
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December 18, 2013Thornton Wilder at 15
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October 8, 2021A Typical Friday in Oregon, as Imagined by My East Coast Friends
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September 2, 2021Oh My Fucking God, Get the Fucking Vaccine Already, You Fucking Fucks
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September 30, 2021This Is Your Kid’s School and Even Though the Emergency Contact Form Lists Your Husband, We Need You, the Mom
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September 22, 2021It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
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