The Chatner

The Chatner

Share this post

The Chatner
The Chatner
"A Frigid, Protestant Anaïs Nin": A Bibliography

"A Frigid, Protestant Anaïs Nin": A Bibliography

Daniel Lavery's avatar
Daniel Lavery
May 01, 2018

Share this post

The Chatner
The Chatner
"A Frigid, Protestant Anaïs Nin": A Bibliography
Share

Previously.

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect; an indulgence that produces neither increased good nor increased satisfaction.”

A Literate Restraint: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller

Moderate Filial Affection: From a Journal of Curtailment

Winter of Candor

“Up with balance – let’s have more of it! I carefully handle glasses; I want to conserve, even if I mend myself. I want to live only for lucidity. I’m adjusted, wholesome, productive, moderate, considerate – flammable, restrained.”

Hamlets of the Interior

A Spy in the House of Like

Friendship of the Minotaur

Solidities: The Expurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

House Sans Incest

A Reasonable Distance From The Moon, Given The Earth’s Relative Position: From A Perfunctory Journal of Self-Control

Recumbence: The Abridged Diary of Anaïs Nin

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was reasonable and felt fine.”

Delta of Hestia

“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman relaxed and at ease, who felt she was treading water efficiently and another who would walk into a scene unperturbed, with all of her emotions.”

The Restful Spirit: Journal of a Capricorn

Innocuous: Companionable Drawings and Selected Passages from the Works of Anaïs Nin

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. And you are. You have a car and everything. Perhaps you read a book, or take a trip, and that’s quite nice too. Millions live like this (or die like this) and it works out quite well. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. Everything goes rather well for them.”


Subscribe to The Chatner

By Daniel Lavery · Thousands of paid subscribers
A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.

Share this post

The Chatner
The Chatner
"A Frigid, Protestant Anaïs Nin": A Bibliography
Share

Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Jane Austen's Persuasion, Part III
Previously: Persuasion, parts I and II.
May 20, 2024 • 
Daniel Lavery
34

Share this post

The Chatner
The Chatner
Jane Austen's Persuasion, Part III
1
I Am The Horrible Goose That Lives In The Town
yes I am the horrible creeping bag of sound that is the most worst to you!
Sep 24, 2019 • 
Daniel Lavery
203

Share this post

The Chatner
The Chatner
I Am The Horrible Goose That Lives In The Town
14
A Brief Account of the Crimes Committed by the Baby So Far in his Nine Months of Life
So young and yet so steeped in crime
Jan 9 • 
Daniel Lavery
468

Share this post

The Chatner
The Chatner
A Brief Account of the Crimes Committed by the Baby So Far in his Nine Months of Life
47

Ready for more?

© 2025 Daniel M. Lavery
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture

Share

Create your profile

User's avatar

Only paid subscribers can comment on this post

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in

Check your email

For your security, we need to re-authenticate you.

Click the link we sent to , or click here to sign in.