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"Bella Swan is a lot like Henry Fonda as Young Mr. Lincoln"

That's Director Lavery To You

"What's the Worst Thing Your Mother Has Ever Said To You?"

The Gamesman's Art of Winning Your Mutual Friends After A Friendship Breakup

“Did I forget to leave the stove on?”: Dealing with intrusive thoughts for arsonists

End of June Roundup: The elevators broke down at work, the second "only piece of writing advice" I'll ever give you, the monk who wants crème brûlée

Dialogue from a recent walk in the woods with my two-year-old when a pair of fire trucks unexpectedly drove into the meadow

Signs Your Best Friend is Thinking of Leaving You

Everything I Ate, Read, and Heard in Senior Living This Week

"The indifference of the remembering-machine to flesh": Are Chairs Frightening? A Chat With My Wife Grace Lavery About "Backrooms"

Free Copies of "Meeting New People" For Anyone Who's Been Recently Dumped By A Friend

I wrote a book about friendship breakups, so I interviewed a bunch of my friends about their friendship breakups

A Chat With Sam Bodrojan: Thinking About Our Boyfriends Thinking About Porn

Types of Fun

"Soft Play"

"Any friendship that comes together over a mutual dislike of a third person is the best kind. Don’t let anybody tell you different"

"I don't know where you find the time": On Chasers

Some Thoughts on "Mikey and Nicky"

Helping and making sure everybody sees you being helpful

On "Marty" (Ernest Borgnine, not Supreme)

Being Trans at Christian College, Part II: "Temptation Tuesdays" and Secret Weddings

Trans at the Evangelical Christian College

Some Thoughts on Elaine May's "A New Leaf"

Return to Pervert Ethnography Island: The Cuckold, The Gooner, The Fujoshi

Cassius Only Has One Suggestion For Everything

On Sleeping With Many Normal Men

You're In A Lesbian Pulp Novel From 1958! What's Distracting You From Work And Causing Your Heterosexual Coworker Nora To Glance Curiously Over At Your Desk?

Advice Everyone Should Follow

The Sad Butler Movie Index

The platonic equivalent of r/deadbedrooms and friendship crop rotation

Signs You're A Doctor In A Midcentury Novel

Everything Beebo Brinker Eats and Drinks in the 1962 Lesbian Pulp Classic "Beebo Brinker"

They Got Me At Last. I Became A Cyclist

A Biblical Exegesis of P.D. Eastman's "Go, Dog, Go"

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