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Having a Childhood Dog May Improve Your Health

A Nass writer works out how early interspecies contact might improve immune system development

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The Lobby Prince

“No price is listed on the website. I’m reminded of one of my mother’s more pessimistic maxims: sometimes, if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.”

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At the movies

Tissue paper face held over a match. Night dangles from rafters, perfume   chemicals burn. Daylight burns like faces on the screen skin-soft, bleached   and bloody. Picture this: grey background, rose buds flailing. Narrow angles   abstract and brief … Read More

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Lag Time Blues

The week before the United States general election, we solicited short-form narrative nonfiction submissions from the Nassau Weekly community. We hoped to gather and serialize scenes, images, and glimpses from Election Day and the following week. We asked writers to … Read More

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Partir C’est Mourir un Peu

“Her grandmother had taken her to a psychiatrist once. She was seven years old at the time, and it had been the first Monday of the school year.”

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Sacramento, 2018

The sidewalk outside is wet. So is my swing hanging from the orange tree branches, and my pink boots by the door that hurt.  I like to draw the same picture over and over, a different bedroom from mine scratched … Read More

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it is late october and i thought i was falling in love three weeks ago

(There’s something off about this moment, a beauty mark on the day. I’m feeling small and alone, far away from home and homesick for my car.)   it is late october and a discarded napkin  swirls in the wind, imitating … Read More

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Teeth

Meditations on Didion, Rooney, Shakespeare, and tooth extraction

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Sentence Starters

We haven’t learned the right tense: the cliché of red leaves falling, your choice  of hazelnut cold  foam atop my cold brew, that dead squirrel we mourned for because despite the newborn tents we couldn’t have brought her back. Why … Read More

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“It’s Just a Sex Thing”: Hookup Culture and the Death of Movement Feminism

This Nass writer assembles anecdotes from six Princeton women to answer the question: Where do we go from here?

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The Dating Issue: Full Design

This week, we shacked up, settled down, and cuffed ourselves into oblivion

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Nass List: What’s Your Type?

What’s our type?

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