In honor of the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month, we asked Entropy writers to share with us one of the first poems they ever read that got them excited…
Nick Kocz
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Princeton Prison Experiment From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Princeton Prison Experiment was a study that sought to measure the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted…
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Last week, I saw the Yeti. Facebook feeds were alive with news of the sightings. I clicked link after link until I landed on a blurry video allegedly shot by…
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The storm hit land in North Carolina on Thursday afternoon and traveled in a northwesterly direction. We in the Washington, DC area did not bear its brunt. Damage was less…
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Before the children, back when I was gainfully employed, cooking was something of a rich man’s hobby for me. I worked at a DC-area consulting firm racking up billable hours…
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Current EventsOpinion
He Was My Friend: the Need for a New Rape Narrative
by Nick Kocz December 11, 2014Consider the standard rape narrative in television and film. A young-ish woman, alone at night. She’s walking to her car in a dimly-lit parking lot. Or she’s returning home through…
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Opinion
My Salami Heart: Reflections on the Convergence of Art, Generosity, Success, Sex, and Law
by Nick Kocz November 26, 2014They were responsible for, perhaps, my proudest moment as a writer. In 2009, fresh after completing my MFA at Virginia Tech, I was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for work on…
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Current EventsOpinion
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by Nick Kocz November 21, 2014News Item: Land Rover, the British automobile concern, commissions noted author William Boyd to produce a 18,000 word novella prominently featuring its vehicles. I turned on the [Brand Name withheld…