Byline: Peter Taylor

Nass Recommends The Tsar of Love and Techno

“This novel-in-stories traces the lives of multiple generations of characters from the early days of the Soviet Union up into the near-future, all interconnected by an obscure nineteenth-century painting.”

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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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Nass Recommends

Praise for Islands by Bear’s Den.

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Someday I’ll Come Back to Peter Taylor

“Remember how lovely / Your dreams once were, filled with sandcastles /
made from stolen buckets on a beach /
Long since nationalized.”

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After the Darkness and Thunder

“That October was particularly dreary. / The clouds slid through the sky / Like lazy gondolas weighted down by unfurling ropes.”

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In the Glow of this Candle

“It does not matter that Claire in real life, though a remarkably talented singer, is not a songwriter. This Claire is not that Claire, even though they are inextricably linked by more than their names and the name of their current partners.”

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In Princeton with You

“Your clothes are spilling from their drawers / It seems I’d rather stay indoors / When I’m in Princeton with you.”

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Perfect Songs

“The dead linger after their passing in the memories of those who knew them; this poem, however, lingers only on my hard drive, contextless and adrift in the sea of my thoughts and memories.”

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Solutions of the Spirit: Art Under Climate Threat

Advocating for art and creativity despite despair about the environment.

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“I Find Writing Very Painful”: An Interview with Nathan J. Robinson

A Nass writer sits down with Nathan J. Robinson, Editor of ‘Current Affairs’.

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Pete Recommends: A Critical Reappraisal of Stairway to Heaven

“But both in spite and because of this ubiquity, “Stairway to Heaven” gets a little slept on, relegated to the status of “rock classic” and thought of as a song more to be heard than to be enjoyed.”

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Nass Recommends (Pete Recommends?) “Bodys” by Car Seat Headrest

“Wherever you are, it’s no longer about the words but now about an ineffable energy that paradoxically grounds you and makes you feel weightless.”

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