Category: Reflections

The Car Bomb Story: On Scaring the Rich, “Maria,” and the Near-Impossibility of Nuanced Storytelling

A reflection in three parts.

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Playing Pretend

“The characters in these books demolished the limitations placed on children.”

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Listening In: Book Fight and Auditory Voyeurism

“How wonderful it is to be alive—to know that we are all here, occupying the same moments as everyone else, breathing, blinking, living.”

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Following Up to “Maria”

“I hope that this article will create a space for more conversations about this topic, as I think it is long overdue.”

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An Interview with Nass Co-Founder, Robert Faggen ‘82

Learning about the origins of the Nassau Weekly and how its first writers carved out a new journalistic space on campus in 1979.

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Nassau’s Birth

Considering how the Nass has simultaneously transformed and remained the same.

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The First Days of Nassau Weekly

“It set for me a prime model of the meaning of a labor of love.”

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The Compugraphic EditWriter 7500

“The Nassau Weekly felt like a really grown up thing, probably the first for me.”

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Remarks by the designers of the satiric science fiction comic strip of the Nass in 1979

Don Storm ‘80 and I wrote and drew “Verity,” a satiric science-fiction comic strip for the Weekly, thanks to Bob Faggen ‘82 taking a chance on us. The strip took longer to produce than we anticipated, and we were grateful … Read More

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Early Days of the Nass

“It had admirable staying power, since it it obviously filled a need.”

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A reflection by Todd Purdum ‘82, a national editor and political correspondent for Vanity Fair

“There was a sense that we were doing something fun and daring..“

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Sold on the Nass

Beginning the business team of the “nascent” Nass.

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