The Chatner

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

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Scenes From "Gallstones," A Novel-In-Progress

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Scenes From "Gallstones," A Novel-In-Progress

Last week I got the chance to read part of an early chapter of my next novel-in-progress, Gallstones, at Michelle Cohn’s “Rejected Shorts.” (I also got…

Dec 12, 2023 •

Daniel Lavery

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Now You Read Now You See Me

Longtime readers will be only too familiar with my longstanding affection for the 2013 close-up magic movie Now You See Me (“it’s got the heart of a…

Dec 5, 2022 •

Daniel Lavery

Please Excuse My Eldest Daughter, Mathilde

Listen now | She lacks what the Italians call sprezzatura

Jun 15, 2021 •

Daniel Lavery

"Hotel Dull, Food Indifferent" Audio, Chapter Two

Leave The Gate As You Found It

Jun 5, 2021 •

Daniel Lavery

Hotel Dull, Food Indifferent: Audiobook

"There is no breakfast-companion more tiresome than one who passed the night dreaming."

Jun 4, 2021 •

Daniel Lavery