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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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A Summer Education in Hawaii

I’m thrilled to be a witness after many uneventful years in suburbia.

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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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Nass List: What’s Wrong With Me?

What’s wrong with us?

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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 … Read More

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Sex Issue (2023): Full Design

Read the full design of our newest issue, the Sex Issue.

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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.

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