Byline: Lara Katz

Godzilla on the Page

“i am timeless! un- /
stoppable! godzilla /
on the page.”

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Terrariums, Tolstoy, and Tasty Burgers: What Our Profs Really Think About Us

The candid opinions and hot takes of Princeton faculty members.

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The Glass Cracked

When the glass on a train cracks, strange and impossible things reveal themselves to the protagonist in this speculative fiction piece.

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A Good Morning

“She left her feet behind in bed, tucking them in/like children.”

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Telescoping Rhythm

In the succeeding entries, we telescope “rhythm.” Sonically evocative and personally connotative, we examine the word in its multiplicity of meanings.

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Nass Recommends: Derek Thompson’s Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction.

A Nass writer dives into the stories and science behind pop culture icons.

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Things So Obvious They Almost Make No Sense: Defamiliarization and the Default in Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From

“I couldn’t discern an agenda, political, spiritual, or otherwise, and yet the novel felt anything but aimless. Primarily, it read and resonated like poetry.”

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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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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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The Story about a War and Some Other Things

“Anyway, I’ve heard stories are supposed to have morals. I don’t know if this is much of a story, really, but I’ll give it a moral anyhow.”

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Letter to a Professor (From a Disgruntled Parent-Donor)

Dear Lecherous Lecturer Precious Professor, Happy winter. I heard you’re in Vail? Hope the slopes are not destroying your knees. I’m reeling from the news that you gave a D to my son Robert “Torie” George Junior (I abstain from … Read More

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“Sweaty, Loud, and Not a Little Tipsy”

Four underclass students reflect on beginning and continuing college.

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