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ARE YOU A PROTAGONIST IN A DAPHNE DU MAURIER NOVEL? DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM, SUCH AS GOING TO CORNWALL OR A MAN LOOKED AT YOU? PERHAPS YOU STRUGGLE WITH …
Daniel Lavery
Oct 23
I was showing the Indianapolis scene from Jaws to Grace last night and I was struck by how much the first few minutes, where Richard Dreyfuss and Rober…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 22 1
Three trans men of a certain type (were Mary McCarthy writing The Group today, they’d have featured prominently in at least the Vassar flashbacks, say.…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 21 7
Most recently: “Nails were never much good against Mother,” Henry mumbled, his whole mouth thickly forested. “Remember Violet?” “I’ll take the matches,…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 20 2
Ah! my friend, please think of my hardships
Daniel Lavery
Oct 19 5
The second season of Tor’s horror anthology, Come Join Us By The Fire, has just launched on Google Play, where it’s available for free. Chapter fourtee…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 15 1
Watching Alec Guinness quietly-yet-forcefully react to various catty declarations through Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is like a slow canoe ride down B…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 14 2
And not the 2011 version with Colin Firth and Gary Oldman either, the one that holds your hand and says reassuring things throughout, but the 1979 mini…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 13 3
How strange! At the beginning of the evening — when it could scarcely have been said to be evening at all, when I first stepped in off the street to es…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 9 7
You are a member of Steely Dan! Your name is: Norbert “Polecat” Haberman Robert “Footstep” Deacon Gunnar “Pitfox” Hart-Davies Carl “It’s Carl” Calthorp…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 8 3
Described as "a dazzling, mind-bending novel of feminist utopias and impossible choices", the novel explores a world where men vanish from the world. T…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 7 6
Listen. It’s me you’re talking to here. Patrick Wilson, your skeptical husband, furrowed brow, forehead high with suspicion, always pinching my eyes to…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 6 3
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