Archive - The Chatner

The Elegies of Tibullus

An indirect translation of some Latin poems

Oct 7 • Daniel Lavery

Hot Borscht at the Soviet Consulate: Visiting the Archives for Women’s Hotel 3

Last week I spent some time at the GLBT Historical Society Archives with a group of residents, and I managed to sneak in a brief dose of research for…

Oct 5 • Daniel Lavery

The Return of Dirtbag Catullus

Big cup. Big cup! Bring me the bigggg cup you are the boy who brings wine so be the boy bringing me wine

Oct 1 • Daniel Lavery

September 2026

“We getting any robots soon?”: AI in Senior Living

Listen, I’m already on the computer. I don’t need to be on the computer any more than I already am.

Sep 29 • Daniel Lavery

The Lady Vanishes

A chat with Rafe Meager

Sep 24 • Daniel Lavery

I like covering front desk

“I’m here to see my mom”

Sep 21 • Daniel Lavery

I got an email offering to help promote my book – but the book was one my father wrote in 2002

"What's remarkable is the book you're trying to sell me a promotion for is not one I wrote. It's by my estranged father, John Ortberg. I've never called…

Sep 17 • Daniel Lavery

Turnabout is fair play: I asked my friends about the worst thing they’ve ever said to their mothers

Last week I asked some of my friends about the worst things their mothers ever said to them (and in the interest of fairness, the nicest things their…

Sep 15 • Daniel Lavery

I asked my friends about the worst thing their mothers ever said to them

and in the interest of fairness, the nicest thing she’s ever done

Sep 9 • Daniel Lavery

Once a week I vacuum the floors

People like to see a young white man vacuuming. It makes them feel good.

Sep 2 • Daniel Lavery

August 2026

Everyone In The Phantom Tollbooth Looked A Little Bit Like William F. Buckley

I’m unpaywalling an old Chatner post from 2019 as the next book deadline comes down to bear on me (Women’s Hotel III is due at the end of October).

Aug 31 • Daniel Lavery

Things Jim Croce Sings About When He Is Feeling Ebullient

Aug 27 • Daniel Lavery

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