The Believer Magazine
Articles by
Susan Harlan
Susan Harlan’s humor writing has appeared in venues including The Awl, The Billfold, Avidly, Queen Mob’s Tea House, The Hairpin, The Belladonna, Janice, and The Establishment. Her book Decorating a Room of One’s Own: Conversations on Interior Design with Miss Havisham, Jane Eyre, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Bennet, Ishmael, and Other Literary Notables, which began as a column for The Toast, was published by Abrams in October 2018. She teaches English literature at Wake Forest University.
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March 7, 2019A Poem About Your University’s Absolute Intention to Absolutely Deal With Institutional Racism Seriously Absolutely Any Minute Now and Certainly One Day
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December 7, 2018A Poem About Your University’s New and Totally Not Time-Wasting Review Process for Tenure and Promotion
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September 5, 2018Even More Alternatives to Resting Bitch Face
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August 29, 2018Men Explain My Syllabus to Me
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April 19, 2018A Poem About Your University’s Absolute and Unwavering Appreciation of Its Faculty in Spite of Said Faculty’s Crap Salaries
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January 15, 2018Key Ring Chronicles: Miniature Blue Ridge Parkway Sign
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December 12, 2017Poem About Your University President’s Completely Reasonable Four Million-Dollar Compensation Package
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October 3, 2017More Alternatives to Resting Bitch Face
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July 29, 2017Top Gun’s Maverick Addresses the Application of the Term “Maverick” to Senator John McCain
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June 9, 2017Poem About Your University’s Brand New Community Initiative
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May 10, 2017Facebook Genres for English Professors
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March 24, 2017A Poem About Your University’s Brand New Institute’s Conference
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January 15, 2025A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon
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January 8, 2025Did You Even Consider Every Possible Lived Experience Before Recklessly Posting Your Chili Recipe on Social Media?
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January 9, 2025I Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My Taxes
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January 15, 2025Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty
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January 17, 2025Who Said It: Donald Trump or Martin Luther King Jr.?
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January 17, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: An Interview with Annie Leibovitz
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January 17, 2025It’s About Time Our Government Finally Reflects the Real America—An Airport Terminal at 10 a.m. on a Weekday
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January 16, 2025A Pre-Game Pep Talk by a College Football Coach Who Recently Audited a Class on Nietzschean Thought