Category: Reflections

Dishwashing Ethnography

The Nass turns its anthropological gaze to the more-than-human: this time, a dishwasher

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Craigslist Car

Loving and living with a white 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera

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Picking Pastries

Meditations on the overpriced croissant and its gustatorial orgasm

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Girls (after Jamaica Kincaid’s 1978 “Girl”)

Even if it’s sticky outside, bring a sweater if you’re going to ride the subway at night; your clothes are too tight, change before you leave; your clothes are too loose, they don’t do you any favors; if you’re being … Read More

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Conversations in a Time Warp: Tribute to my Beloved Cafe

Vignettes on an enigmatic Polish woman and the Boston area cafe she runs.

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I agree, a little, sometimes

“I love truth — as I once wrote in my homework). I soon learned to compromise by articulating smaller truths when I couldn’t articulate bigger ones.”

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They could never make a Sofia Coppola robot

Thoughts on filmic solitude from a solitary Nass writer in Portugal

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Attempts to Exhaust Yourself

Exercises in wearing yourself out and–actually–getting some writing done

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I’m So Painfully in Love with All of You

“This summer I’m remembering how real my flesh is. When I was a kid everything was tactile and I just wanted sugar and didn’t think abstractly.”

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What We Know

Meditations on learning Farsi at Princeton, with the department’s only professor

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If You Have a Passport, Bless It

“Suddenly, I was back, surrounded by my classmates again. Curious to know why it had taken me so much longer than everyone else, they swarmed me with questions. I lied.”

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Beet Blood

“Then salt and pepper. More than you think, because you never add a sufficient amount. Maybe because you are afraid.”

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