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Tyler Austin Harper

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As seen in: The Atlantic, Time To Say Goodbye, Slate, The Daily Beast, Flipboard, Salon, Radio Derb
Staff writer @TheAtlantic. Co-host of the Time To Say Goodbye podcast (@ttsgpod). Gone fishing.
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The Truths That Failed Jason Arday Original

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By Tyler Austin Harper Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
Yesterday in London, Jason Arday, the controversy-plagued British academic and author, was found dead. Made famous as the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s more than 800-year history, Arday had been dogged by weeks of scrutiny amid accusations of plagiarism, fake qualifications, and a fabricated backstory filled with hard-to-believe details. He claimed to have been mute until age 11 and illiterate until 18, disadvantages that did not deter him from getting a Ph.D., which he earned by age 30.
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Confessions of a Token Black Professor

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By Tyler Austin Harper Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
As you cross the Androscoggin River into Lewiston, you pass on your left the waterfalls that once set the mills to humming. On your right, affixed to a pockmarked brick mill—now defunct, it had spun tens of thousands of bedspreads a week—a 30-foot-wide neon sign reads HOPEFUL. And so I was. My wife and I drove by that unlit sign on the hot May afternoon when we moved from New York to the interior of Maine. It was 2020. The 100,000th American was about to die of COVID. And I was starting my dream job.
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I Love My Emotionally Stunted Friendships

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By Tyler Austin Harper Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
This spring, a few weeks before the fishing season began in earnest, I went over to a buddy’s house with a six-pack and a bucket full of beaten-up lures. We sat at his kitchen table, swapping out rusty hooks as we talked about new spots we wanted to try, gear we’d bought over the winter, and the all-important question: When would the first striped bass arrive near us on their annual northward migration?
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