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Corpse Diem

We will all be worm food
So fuck each other wildly

by Samuel Bollen on March 7, 2015

Country Shit with Granddad

When I was seventeen I went duck hunting on a lake in the backwoods of Tennessee with my grandfather and uncle.

by Samuel Bollen on December 6, 2015December 6, 2015

Liking Love

The first few episodes feature some pretty conventional plot devices, but the characterization and dialogue have a loose, awkward, and very human quality to them.

by Samuel Bollen on March 6, 2016October 2, 2016

Peer Review

Since the beginning of time, editors at The Nassau Weekly have taken their pens to each other’s Common Application Essays. And yes, The Nassau Weekly has been around since the beginning of time.

by Samuel Bollen, Zach Cohen on April 10, 2016October 2, 2016

Welcome to WolfWorld

There’s only wolves and people left.

by Samuel Bollen on October 24, 2016

Death Grips “Hot Head” Track Review

“Hot Head” is not only an assertion of power but also an investigation into how power works.

by Samuel Bollen on February 10, 2016October 2, 2016

Weird Vermeer

When I’m trying to be cool talking about my intersession I tell people I was visiting friends who are doing a gap year in the Capitol (which is technically true), but mostly I was hanging out with my aunt and going to art galleries.

by Samuel Bollen on February 14, 2015

Manscaping

Before my senior year of high school, I had relegated the concept of manscaping to metrosexual metropolises like New York and Los Angeles.

by Samuel Bollen on March 7, 2015

Soap Poem

found an old bar of yr soap in the bathroom closet more like i found it in the store (amazon) n bought it n brought it home n bathed myself w it n had a v v emotional time ie … Read More

by Samuel Bollen on April 3, 2016July 20, 2017

Lester in Love

I: For a neurotic weenie you sure seem to be a man of action.
L: Yeah, well sometimes.

by Samuel Bollen on April 24, 2016October 2, 2016

The Myth of the Reclusive Writer

In Rich Homie Quan’s 2013 classic, “Type of Way,” he joins a three thousand-year tradition of literary recluses in a single rhyming couplet: “I got a hide away, and I go there sometimes, to give my mind a break/ I find a way, to still get through the struggle, what I’m tryna say.”

by Samuel Bollen on November 14, 2015November 16, 2015

The Ghost Sex

Reliving what could have been.

by Samuel Bollen on October 12, 2015October 12, 2015


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