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Sorry About the Air Conditioners Being Off: Townes Van Zandt, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Aesthetic Signatures of Heat
A Nass writer sweats through readings of some outlaw country tunes and a splatter horror classic
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Fruit Flies
The end product is a picture with many suns that capture the real in infinitely many instances. Yet it represents nothing of reality.
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Of Friendship, Sex, and Bacon
How to conceal, expose, and generally deal with the high stakes of early February
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High Rise: Full Design
In the final issue of volume 47, the Nass pays a visit to President Clinton’s stomping grounds, cries with Joyce Carol Oates, and does or does not do drugs in the Bay Area.
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True and False: Bay Area
A drug deal that wasn’t. A minister on mushrooms. Which is real, and which is fake?
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Letter from the Editors
We strive to be a democratic publication, one whose direction is shaped by our contributors more than our editorial staff. When we floated the idea for a sex issue, we received overwhelming enthusiasm from the Nass community. So we went ahead with it. Previous mastheads had done this—in 1988 and 2006. But those were…
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Sexter, Over Time
“I feel yucky, I said. I licked a fucking banana. We’ve all been there, my friend said, but I wasn’t so sure that he could relate to using a banana as a sensuous prop. I ate the banana since it was peeled already.”
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Director’s Cut: Full Design
This week, the Nass talks about movies, bodies, and movies about dog bodies.
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Brush With Death: Full Design
This week, the Nass recycles beer cans, interrogates TikTok feminism, and decides what good art is.