Man 1: “I’ve been at work all day.”
Man 2: “That’s why you’re a multi-multi-hundred-thousandaire.”
Overheard in Scottsdale, AZ.
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A Gorey Education: Nass Recommends The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
“It was one of the first times as a child that anyone really spoke to me about life honestly. This was the Real Adult World — dark, scary, weird parts and all — and it was thrilling.”
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Giving, Going; Living, Loving
“Everyday she grew older. This obvious fact had never seemed obvious before.”
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Nass Fungible Tokens – Full Design
This week, the Nass investigates the nuances of identity, beauty, and porn.
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The Dictionary of Identities
“When the word ‘diversity’ enters the conversation, I am to be made an example and a representative…. It’s as if I cannot possibly be content simply existing”
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The Journey from Pornhub to OnlyFans… And Why it Matters
A Nass writer considers issues of feminism and labor compensation within the evolving landscape of the porn industry.
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Life Lessons from Mahler and Fungi
Two Nass writers reflect on the nature of beauty through myriad lenses.
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What I Remember of Philadelphia: An Incomplete, Random List
“On those evenings, I fancied myself a tortured artist, sipping a Coors Light and stewing in the majesty of my ideas. I even wrote some of them down.”
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The Opposite of Hunger is Still Hunger
“But you put me here in America— in rich, white, suburban America, where the people are bland and the food even more so. You put me here in this diner, and I hate you for it.”
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Empty Spaces
“Even though I said that I wanted to fill in all this empty space around me, I’ve also come to realize that I need some space to be empty.”
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Space Jam – Full Design
This week, the Nass meditates on home life, hears from Tracy K. Smith, and telescopes space.
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‘Different Tools for Enduring’: An interview with Tracy K. Smith
A Nass writer sits down with the United States Poet Laureate and Princeton Professor to discuss Blackness, the pandemic, and poetry.
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Telescoping Space
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. Looking around and beyond us, this week we telescope “space.”
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On Deciding Not To Live In A Literal Castle
A first-year student wrestles with the decision to stay at home in a semester with so many students on campus.
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Enfleshment
“If the body cares not for itself, / who would care for it? / What is the use / of wasted breath?”
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