Nassau Weekly

Susannah Sharpless

  • Peer Review (Part 2)

    Peer Review (Part 2)

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    Andrew Sondern edits Susannah Sharpless’s Common App essay.

  • Twitterature

    Twitterature

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    The case for tweets as poetry.

  • Writing East

    Writing East

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    Maybe I’m homesick or maybe I’ve just sold out, but I’ve stopped distinguishing between the states that make up the great green Midwest I call home.

  • The Generation X Gap

    The Generation X Gap

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    Douglas Coupland’s exhibit in the Vancouver Art Gallery this summer was called “everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything,” and from the instant I saw the title, before I even set foot in the museum, I was not feeling it. The all-lowercase aesthetic felt, to me, like an appropriation by a pretty square art gallery…

  • Babes and Burgers

    Babes and Burgers

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    “I could really go for a good burger right now,” my friend says in a tone that conveys that a burger would fill not only her stomach, but her soul. She leans against the wall expectantly. All night, she’s been flirting with another friend, a certain kind of guy who likes a certain kind of…

  • Fear Itself

    Fear Itself

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    I never sleep well when I am home. This is usually due to physical—not mental—distress: in eighth grade I inherited a three-quarter sized bedframe from the eighteenth century, a Sharpless heirloom that my grandparents wanted to get rid of. Rare is the vendor in this century that sells a mattress fit to its arcane proportions,…

  • It’s Too Easy Being (John) Green

    It’s Too Easy Being (John) Green

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    Good or bad, long or short, about wizards or vampires, successful young adult novels make their fans go crazy. Really, really nuts.

  • ARA 101

    ARA 101

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    As I stood outside the door to Frist 212 on the first day of my freshman year, waiting for my Arabic 101 class to start, a bright-eyed boy in a polo shirt bounced up to the door. I smiled at him, and he stood weirdly close to me, clutching his books. I was unnerved. Soon,…

  • Throwback Soundtrack

    Throwback Soundtrack

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    I don’t remember why I started listening to RadioNow 93.1, Indianapolis’ Top 40 radio station, but I know exactly when. I was nine, and it was the summer after third grade. Before this, I had basically stayed away from pop culture. I didn’t really get it, or like it, and there was a girl in…

  • Mind Over Mirror

    Mind Over Mirror

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    For a class called “Women’s Bodies, Women’s Lives,” that I took last semester, we were tasked with many activities meant to make us aware of what it meant to be a woman, and a woman in a body, and a woman in a body in a society alternatingly fascinated and disgusted with that body.

  • Girls Just Wanna Have It All

    Girls Just Wanna Have It All

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    Hannah, Anne Marie, and me.

  • Drunk Eating Club

    Drunk Eating Club

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    Damien* is a frat bro, infamous on the Princeton campus for his trust fund and sexual aggression, and he has something to say. “Write this down,” he says to me. “Damien does not like women.” I ask why not. “Because they’re not cool.” Why not? “Because I can’t relate to them.”