The Chatner

The Chatner

A newsletter about rejiggered literary classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.

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Now You Read Now You See Me

Listen now (64 min) | Longtime readers will be only too familiar with my longstanding affection for the 2013 close-up magic movie Now You See Me (“it’s…

Dec 5, 2022 •

Please Excuse My Eldest Daughter, Mathilde

Listen now | She lacks what the Italians call sprezzatura

Jun 15, 2021 •

"Hotel Dull, Food Indifferent" Audio, Chapter Two

Listen now (9 min) | Leave The Gate As You Found It

Jun 5, 2021 •

Hotel Dull, Food Indifferent: Audiobook

Listen now (7 min) | "There is no breakfast-companion more tiresome than one who passed the night dreaming."

Jun 4, 2021 •

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