Fearful fun-seeker: “We can’t go to a dive bar. What if somebody asks me to arm wrestle?”
Sympathetic friend: “That will probably happen.”
Fearful fun-seeker: “Fine. Let me get a pump in.”
Overheard while making evening plans
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Letter from the Editors
Dear all, Since we came to Princeton in the fall of 2020, this little paper has remained a constant source of inspiration, camaraderie, and much mirth. We’re honored to usher in the 46th volume of the Nassau Weekly. As the Nass celebrates its first year of full financial and editorial independence, we welcome…
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Unrequited Love: Full Design
This week, the Nass investigates the future of art, probes at prosopagnosia, and contemplates a cure for heartsickness.
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Sally Rooney and the New Amorous World
“In part, the devastation of Conversations with Friends lies in its ability to pinpoint the impurities that taint how we care for one another, without offering a clear or optimistic way out.”
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All the Things You and I Sea
“You look Right into the mirror and recognize what you’d drawn, part by part. Then you blink and completely forget what you’d seen, where you’d been –– or rather, you can’t really tell whether you had ever seen anything in the first place.”
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A Beginner’s Guide to Unrequited Love
A writer’s encounter with the tantalizing, bewildering phenomenon of the Princeton Partner.
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After the Beast Within
In the Earth, Cicadaboy Has an Out-of-Body-Experience Sweat on slate like spilt brain ejaculate, like old sun god’s been plugging holes with lead again, old dog dying of heat stroke again, it’s Thursday, and a series of freak thunderstorms is set to just tear across the county this afternoon, into the evening, the night,…
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Letter from the Editors
Oh, wow, is that the time? We’ve gotta get out of here! (A letter upon our departure from the throne of the Nassau Weekly.)
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Avatarotica 2: The Way of Wetter: Full Design
In the final issue of our forty-fourth volume, the Nass interrogates the illusion of control in the beauty ideal, attempts to translate a scandalous conversation, and cracks open the meanings of “fault.”
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Telescoping Fault
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 “fault.”