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"Potatoes matter to me": An Excerpt From Meeting New People
"Potatoes matter to me. It’s important to treat them with respect. People matter to me too, but I think it’s much better to focus on one thing at a…
 • Daniel Lavery
What It Feels Like to Not Have to Write Something Down
No :) I don’t need to do that right now :)
 • Daniel Lavery
The Worst Part About Publishing a Book in 2025 Is The New Kind of Spam
I don’t like getting spam emails as a general rule, but they’re usually pretty easy to filter and don’t cause more than a momentary spasm of irritation:
 • Daniel Lavery
Everything the Baby Currently Believes to be Basketball
The baby has recently entered into the age of fixations.
 • Daniel Lavery
Fielding Questions About My New Job's Shift Meal Policy
DANIEL: The burden is easy; the yoke is light. I receive no more than two to three emails a day on average. FRIENDS: Surely not —!DANIEL: It is not…
 • Daniel Lavery
"But PornosexualGooner101 Died 35 Years Ago...This Very Night!"
"There’s this idea that straight cis men have an entirely uncomplicated relationship to porn because they’re the most normative porn consumer…
 • Daniel Lavery
An Excerpt from "Christmas at the Women's Hotel"
Christmas at the Women’s Hotel is coming out in about a week.
 • Daniel Lavery
The Chatner
The Chatner
A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.
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