Helpful friend 1: You should become a freelancer
Struggling writer: I would rather eat my own eyes
Helpful friend 2: That’s a graphic image. Something… different
Overheard during grind session
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At the Expense of the Invisible: the White Male Perspective of Cartoon
“Perhaps children of the early 2000s should be grateful for tamer coming-of-age protagonists who dealt with school bullies, boogers, and cursed slices of cheese within the vacuum of endless middle school.”
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Letter from the Editor
A letter from the editor celebrating the release of the seventh issue of the semester.
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Infinite Prospects – Full Design
In this week’s special issue highlighting writers and artists of color, the Nass goes to the grocery, likens music to love, and washes with public soap.
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ON WAR AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE
“the human can only know themselves to be human / because we condemn the three dimensions / of our thoughts”
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Monkey See
“They probably thought Evan just smelled like that: nauseatingly floral like Katie Levi-Moretti, the first girl in his high school class to discover perfume and, therefore, the last person everybody wanted to sit next to at assembly.”
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Like Shooting Stars
Wherein a Nass writer reflects on his myriad relationships with music.
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Ars Poetica with Everything Ending, so Everything Beginning
“Let’s try this again. I am one of many people in love. I am a human of being human. Skin like everyone else and lots of heart. Too much music might kill me. Too little too.”
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“Fronteriza”
“Some families even hold their hands up to the chicken wire to touch each other’s fingertips.”
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Pilgrimage to Mitsuwa
“Nostalgia is a luxury that I’m willing to pay any price for, and these grocery stores sell it all.”
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I’m Rewriting My Story
“I often have to remind myself that I too am allowed, and can succeed with, charismatic, unapologetic style.”
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the Limits of the Liberal Imagination
Wherein a Nass writer looks at the popular sitcom from a more radical angle.