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The Not So Rinky Dinky

With a mere 2.7 miles of track, the Dinky is the shortest regularly scheduled passenger route in the USA. The two-car train has 117 seats and carries some 1860 riders a day.

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Nass List: What’s Wrong With Me?

What’s wrong with us?

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The Tories of Spring

Schmitz’s real purpose is to marginalize 185 Nassau and a group of people who create. And how better to do this than to reduce all their striving to a simple exercise in what Edward Said terms “refinement”—the long, steady, reactionary march toward sameness, marked by a constant re-reading and emulating of a constricted Western canon. Anyone can write a villanelle in a vacuum, but the teaching of creativity, the encouragement of a fresh perspective—these demand an understanding of the physical world and of the writer’s particular circumstances.

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Conversation

It’s like a death, but it’s worse. Because this is the last time I’ll speak with you and we’re both angry. I’m yelling something, but I’m looking at the rumple between your mouth and your nose, watching it as you … Read More

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Counterculture: Full Design

The Nass is a rebel without a cause. A tortured creature. A little dog with a big bite. This week, we’re counterculture.

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No Business Like Poe Business

So, to briefly memorialize the show for now: it’s a play about a play–a construction called, thanks again to ‘kipedia, a “mise en abyme”–about Edgar Alan Poe.

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Atlas

Tired, exhausted, spent. Atlas fails, his shoulders relax, the mighty stone slips, and goes tumbling.   It scratches the land, denting the mountains, before crashing into western sea.   He stands there trembling, covering his head.   –   He … Read More

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Love in the Orange Bubble

“I scribbled a question on my scrap of paper and tossed it into the designated baseball hat: Can you tell us a little about hookups and relationships at school?”

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Minivan

tilted, perfectly   the globe sat undisturbed on its axis   the sound of stillness spoke to me   being young was being free?   Babi drove the minivan.   Babi said it was easy   un-split ends   curly … Read More

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Electra’s Reconciliation: Moving Beyond Matricide

A Nass writer considers generational perspectives on feminism in a discussion with her own mother, a Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies professor.

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Light

“Unaided / my eyes can only see so much / Beauty.”

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Not Just “Like a Virgin”

I learned a lot about sex when I was growing up. Thanks to my liberal Manhattan private school education, I had some form of sex ed every year of my life starting in fifth grade. Countless classes led by middle-aged … Read More

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