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June 2025

The Wine-Dark Sea Is About the Pleasure of Outlasting Your Best Friend's Other Friend, and Is the Best Book in the Aubrey-Maturin Series
Mild spoilers ahead for friendship positioning in the last five Aubrey-Maturin books, if that's important to you
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Daniel Lavery
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An Archive, A Book, A Job
Recently a few readers had let me know that the Toast had gone down, which I was sorry to hear about.
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Daniel Lavery
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A Trip Through The Chatner Vault: Dressing Like a Boy in Daphne Du Maurier, Eating a Simple Bean, Did You Take Your Pill? and more
My book is due this week please wish me luck finishing!
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Daniel Lavery
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A Trip to the Vault: All of The Chatner's Anna Wintour and Joan Didion Videos
My novel is due this week, so please enjoy a few pieces from the Chatner’s vault.
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Daniel Lavery
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I Can't Listen To Music While I Write, So Here's All The Antique Furniture I Browsed But Didn't Buy While Writing My Next Novel
Picture Niles Crane, a little embittered, as a fifty-eight-year-old woman. That shouldn’t be too much trouble.
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Daniel Lavery
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The Pages of "Hop On Pop," Ranked By Our Fourteen-Month-Old Son
In the matter of books, Rocco is like a rude pagan king surrounded by literate priests he neither trusts nor is yet prepared to dismiss from his…
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Daniel Lavery
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Bon-Bon The Dog Experiences River Madness
It is all I can do to keep him on the leash until we reach the riverbank. He oscillates with impatience, like a malfunctioning tennis-ball launcher.
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Daniel Lavery
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"Playthings may not count in, tap out, or call time, but await the pleasure of big hands": A Few Runs at Sappho's Fragment 63
Claire Catenaccio (a Classics professor) approached Danny (a very occasional poet and pretend translator) with a theory about the missing portions of…
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Daniel Lavery
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May 2025

The Reluctant Ecumenist: Nobody Resents or Resembles Nuns More than A Charlotte Brontë Heroine
Buried alive, grilled alive, walled alive; if “I thought quicksand was going to be a much bigger problem as an adult” was a popular riff in the 2010s…
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Daniel Lavery
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Cupid and Psyche, Part II: It Was A Teenage Wedding And The Old Folks Wished Them Well
No one ever seems to be able to agree on just how old Cupid is. Sometimes he’s a beautiful poet-youth of nineteen or twenty, and sometimes he’s a…
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Daniel Lavery
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