{"id":174685,"date":"2026-08-03T11:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=174685"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:59:42","slug":"my-year-of-tests-and-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/03\/my-year-of-tests-and-arbitration\/","title":{"rendered":"My Year of Tests and Arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_174686\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-174686\" class=\"wp-image-174686 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ottessa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ottessa.png 900w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ottessa-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ottessa-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-174686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Ottessa Moshfegh.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Each week,\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u00a0unlocks stories, poems, and interviews for our readers from our archive. Sign up for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/theparisreview.org\/newslettersignup\">Redux<\/a>\u00a0newsletter\u00a0to receive these pieces to your inbox every Sunday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first thing you learn about the narrator of Ottessa Moshfegh\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/pPETJOI6Od0?e=1215d418d0&amp;c2id=7a63c8e9ee430d09cd26e0bfaa96422b&amp;m=JDNXjJqZPC1APnGIBehNe19fqb7SwlVDTBK2FS-1FcQE06M2mR_rxuRWxTi6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/pPETJOI6Od0?e%3D1215d418d0%26c2id%3D7a63c8e9ee430d09cd26e0bfaa96422b%26m%3DJDNXjJqZPC1APnGIBehNe19fqb7SwlVDTBK2FS-1FcQE06M2mR_rxuRWxTi6&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1785850144753000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0MkC4AnRZP9c5A_Qco4PUi\">Bettering Myself<\/a>,\u201d published in issue no. 204 of the\u00a0<em>Review<\/em>, is that she pukes in the nuns\u2019 bathroom in the mornings. Miss Mooney is a jaded teacher at a Ukrainian Catholic school, prone to showing up hungover, faking her students\u2019 state exams, napping on the job in a sleeping bag, and offering such wisdom as: You can\u2019t \u201cget fat from being ejaculated into.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>None of this is remarked upon by the head of the school, the oblivious principal Mr. Kishka, whose sole observation about the narrator is incorrect. As Miss Mooney recounts at the beginning of the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I rarely made my way down to the school cafeteria, but when I did, the principal, Mr. Kishka, would stop me and smile broadly and say, \u201cHere she comes, the vegetarian.\u201d I don\u2019t know why he thought I was a vegetarian. What I took from the cafeteria were prepackaged digits of cheese, chicken nuggets, and greasy dinner rolls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Wednesday, Moshfegh\u2019s story found itself at the center of a lawsuit filed against the head of a school by a member of its faculty. The teacher in question, Vinita Prabhakar, is an English professor at South Florida State College who is suing the school for wrongful termination. As Prabhakar tells it, she assigned \u201cBettering Myself\u201d to her students as part of a unit on \u201cunlikable\u201d narrators. Prabhakar has taught the story, alongside works from Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver, \u201cfor nearly a decade without incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That changed this past spring, after the college\u2019s president, Fred Hawkins, determined that the story was \u201cmorally objectionable\u201d (\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want my daughter reading this, and she\u2019s in college\u201d), and that teaching it was \u201cpolitical.\u201d In response, Prabhakar was relieved of her teaching duties and suspended without pay. In the complaint, Professor Prabhakar recounts a conversation with President Hawkins, in which he allegedly told her, \u201cLet me be clear: I don\u2019t ever want to see this story again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We hope some of you do, which is why, this week, we\u2019ve unlocked Moshfegh\u2019s Plimpton Prize\u2013winning\u00a0story\u00a0from the archive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/1B1BcgoBihr?e=1215d418d0&amp;c2id=7a63c8e9ee430d09cd26e0bfaa96422b&amp;m=C9nBwxZcjn-Bezjod-yyq9GRWGWoMsfk2AYMGTRfK_EuNFbkEuGlEyTgyX3n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/1B1BcgoBihr?e%3D1215d418d0%26c2id%3D7a63c8e9ee430d09cd26e0bfaa96422b%26m%3DC9nBwxZcjn-Bezjod-yyq9GRWGWoMsfk2AYMGTRfK_EuNFbkEuGlEyTgyX3n&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1785850144753000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2jtdbW-Sgb_MrZ6L5A65vw\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\"><strong>Bettering Myself<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\"><em>Ottessa Moshfegh<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Something about that old library room made Principal Kishka keep his distance. I think he knew if he ever set foot in there, he\u2019d be in charge of cleaning it up and getting rid of me. Most of the books were useless mismatched sets of outdated encyclopedias, Ukrainian bibles, Nancy Drew. I even found some girlie magazines, under an old map of Soviet Russia folded up in a drawer marked <small>SISTER KOSZINSKA<\/small>. One good thing I found was an old encyclopedia of worms. It was a coverless, fist-thick volume of brittle paper chipped at the corners. I tried to read it between classes when I couldn\u2019t sleep. I tucked it into the sleeping bag with me, plied open the binding, let my eyes roll over the small, musty print. Each entry was more unbelievable than the last. There were roundworms and horseshoe worms and worms with two heads and worms with teeth like diamonds and worms as large as house cats, worms that sang like crickets or could disguise themselves as small stones or lilies or could stretch their jaws to accommodate a human baby. What is this trash they\u2019re feeding children these days, I thought. I slept and got up and taught algebra and went back into the sleeping bag. I zipped it up over my head. I burrowed deep down and pinched my eyes closed. My head throbbed and my mouth felt like wet paper towels. When the bell rang, I got out and there was Angelika with her brown-bag lunch saying, \u201cMiss Mooney, there\u2019s something in my eye and that\u2019s why I\u2019m crying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">From issue no. 204 (Spring 2013)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet me be clear: I don\u2019t ever want to see this story again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31006],"tags":[67827,1886,9445,14858,10199,22448,31384],"class_list":["post-174685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redux","tag-featured","tag-florida","tag-higher-education","tag-lawsuits","tag-ottessa-moshfegh","tag-paris-review-archive","tag-redux"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 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