Senior girl #1: “Yeah, I don’t want to live out of my parents’ basement.”
Senior girl #2: “Your parents made you live in the basement!?”
Overheard in Firestone, discussing post-grad plans
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Telescoping Echo
To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. This week, eight Nass writers telescope the word “echo” (echo, echo). Lucia Brown At some point, the wrought iron fence that trapped the house disappeared, leaving behind a crumbling…
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The Sickness/Hastalık/Die Krankheit/بیماری/La Enfermedad
A multilingual short story exploring one’s thoughts while at the gym.
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Please leave a voicemail, I’m out of the wheelhouse
“Mysticism twists herself in circles, gnawing at her purple train..”
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Everything Everywhere Should Watch this Movie
“Everything Everywhere managed to accomplish authentic storytelling, complex character relationships, and a three-part plot structure in just over two hours, a feat that I did not think was possible.”
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Rumination
“I think often about this evening, and what my friend as trying to tell me. Something about appearances, how things seldom are how they seem? But this is too banal, and she is clever.”
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Terrariums, Tolstoy, and Tasty Burgers: What Our Profs Really Think About Us
The candid opinions and hot takes of Princeton faculty members.
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Thesis Fairy: Full Design
This week the Nass lives vicariously, vents to mom, and learns what professors really think of students.
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The Rains of Macondo: Relevance, Our Country Friends, and the Literature of the Pandemic
“The rain described by García Márquez seemed compellingly similar to the virus that had upended my own life and the lives of so many others: impersonal, unrelenting, and showing no sign of ending any time soon.”
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My Mother, the Dumping Ground
“I love my mother, but how is anyone supposed to respond to an endless bucket of support?”
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