The Chatner

I'll Tell You This For Free: Never Get The First Vitamin They Tell You To Buy

Elsewhere: I wrote about visiting gay bathhouses for Coyote last week.

Jan 6 • Daniel Lavery

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December 2025

What Every Non-Fiction Book Is Called Now

we all remember the “tiny things we know to be small” title crisis of 2022 but we ought not overlook nonfiction titles like

Dec 29, 2025 • Daniel Lavery

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The Best Lines From John Collier's "His Monkey Wife"

"Mr. Bernard Shaw would have been delighted. So was the chimp.”

Dec 16, 2025 • Daniel Lavery

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"The Shop Around The Corner" Without Any Christmas or Romance Is Still A Pretty Good Movie About Luggage Inventory

“That’s a new silver fox!

Dec 12, 2025 • Daniel Lavery

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Books That Will Never Change Your Life

Here is a list of books that will never try to change your life.

Dec 10, 2025 • Daniel Lavery

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Love's Work in "Go, Dog, Go"

Do you like my hat?

Dec 5, 2025 • Daniel Lavery

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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…

Dec 2, 2025 • Daniel Lavery

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November 2025

What It Feels Like to Not Have to Write Something Down

No :) I don’t need to do that right now :)

Nov 24, 2025 • Daniel Lavery

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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:

Nov 21, 2025 • Daniel Lavery

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Everything the Baby Currently Believes to be Basketball

The baby has recently entered into the age of fixations.

Nov 17, 2025 • Daniel Lavery

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Life in the universe where William Friedkin’s Sorcerer beats out Star Wars: A New Hope at the box office in the spring of 1977

Roy Scheider is nominated for a record-breaking 36 Emmys for his performance on NBC’s seaQuest DSV, beating Alan Alda’s run on M*A*S*H

Nov 14, 2025 • Daniel Lavery

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October 2025