Just a Little Deeper

October 31, 2025

Just a Little Deeper: Full Design

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the life and loves of a hopelessly unromantic artist

“i bit your fingertip. you tasted like cigarettes and irish whiskey and sweat—discordant, utterly unamerican, addictive.”

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Two Days and Two Nights

“Not long after that we realized there was little else to do where we were, so we stood up and headed out, us two boys stumbling through the cold night behind Mary.”

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Piece by piece, Korea Comes Back Through Jeanie Chang’s Clothes

From East Meets West (2021) & Metanoilepsis (2025) to Hôtel Tassel (2025).

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Nass Recommends: Voodoo (2000)

Voodoo reaches into a rich past to forge an even richer future. It’s a record that enacts the contradictions at the heart of its genre: neo-soul.

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In the Margin

“The curling ends of cursive letters reach toward something that is impossible to grasp. The problem is evident on the page: there is always a space between one thing and another.”

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Purgatory is in a West Village Walkup

“It was one of those topsy-turvy Wednesday evenings in New York when one feels like they’ve fallen through a manhole and landed in New Amsterdam: when everything feels offputting and unusual in occurrence.”

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We’re All Born Naked

Harry Gorman and Ellie Diamond have inspired the Nassau Weekly to start its own drag career… we are henceforth known as Narcissa W. Eakly. Wait, scratch that. We’ll workshop it.

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If this is a paradise / I wish I had a lawnmower

If I don’t write soon, I will become an “Ex-Writer”, and where will I be then?

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Varasani and her worn heart

“Every city has a heart. Unheard but never voiceless. Unpolished but never dirty. A thief you can call by her name.”

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Letter from the Editor

Dear reader,   They say that to be radical is to grasp things by the root. But we’re digging deep, and all we see down here is dinosaur bones, rusty sewage pipes, and clumps of microplastics. We haven’t reached the … Read More

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What I Heard about Gaza

After Eliot Weinberg’s “What I Heard About Iraq”

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Verbatim

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Overheard at Artichoke Meeting at 2D.

A fellow Artichoke: So we sent out a form collecting opinions about us hanging up a pride flag outside on the porch. We did receive one nay saying that it was not representative of the group.

Everyone: *a collective side eye*

Overheard at Sakrid.

Male barista, being sarcastic: Thank god there are no gay baristas on shift.

Overheard on Nassau Street.

Guy friend: *shrugs* Hey, you said small in all dimensions.

Girl talking about her new boy toy: Yeah, well I’m not talking about that one.

Overheard in Terrace Kitchen.

Anal musician, about a girl coming to talk to him: She comes around and my anus recoils.

Overheard on the sidewalk.

Guy holding the hand of a girl (who is clearly leaning away from him): If you were more flexible than you are, that would be, like, weird to me. Your amount of flexibility – totally fine.

Overheard in Forbes.

Post-Break Princeton Dad: Looking at this news report and seeing adults get so worked up about 6-7 makes me so sad. If I unironically sound this corny, you know what to do.

Confused Princetonian: What? No I don't.

Dad: A rock to the back of my head.

Overheard at Small World.

Guy in quarter zip: No but I think being unemployed might be, like, really really good.

Overheard at Coffee club.

Neo-Yuppie (?): I do the poetry section for the Princeton Tory under the pen name D.V Likely.