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A Summer Unveiling Soviet Dreams: Leif Haase on the Nass’s Journalistic Pursuits

Reflecting on the magazine’s since defunct Soviet Studies department with a Nass alum

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Bailey’s Pool World: Where America Swims

Come on down to Bailey’s Pool World, where the Bailey’s family has everything you need to meet all your pool satisfaction needs!

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On Memories, the Olfactory, and Untimely Death

Minutes before death, a writer reflects upon his life in smells.

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Delivery

“He frowned and then she was opening the door! and she was a woman because of course she was but he had temporarily forgotten women existed.”

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As Seen on TV

It was a quiet room. That was really the only description I could come up with. I toyed with the idea of the room being calm, maybe civil or peaceful. But mostly it was just quiet. No one did much; even the clapping was very polite.

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Thesis Fairy: Full Design

This week the Nass lives vicariously, vents to mom, and learns what professors really think of students.

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Community Service

“I arrived on my first day of work nervous, the sweat of my anxiety masked by the steamy September weather.”

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Spring Breakers

Spring Breakers arrived in theaters last Friday only to confuse audiences around the country. The film begins practically pornographically, bare breasts splashed with beer and tan rears occupying the entire movie screen, accompanied by the aggressive sounds of Skrillex. It then flashes forward to the mundane and fictitious Kentucky College where four girls find they don’t have enough money to fund a spring break getaway to Florida.

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Coming Out to Christ

I am sixteen years old and sitting in a church pew and I am committing an act of defiance.

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Protected: That Girl

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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First, Nothing

“Let yourself age. Let time press through your skeleton like water, dribbling through your pores, let it sing right through your bones…”

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Brief Interviews with Terrified Men

“Well, look here. Your grandma started out with a neurologist at Sound Shore. An older gentleman by now, recommended, respected, you know what I’m saying to you. She gets dizzy sometimes. Dad tells you when she goes to the hospital.”

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