Daniel Lefferts
@daniel_lefferts
WAYS AND MEANS (2024); work in @parisreview, @gqmagazine, @thebafflermag, and elsewhere
The very sexy paperback cover of Ways and Means is here. Comes out in August. NYU Stern bros, MAGA twinks, deranged oligarchs, private equity goons, a grand theory of topping and bottoming, a love story…it’s got it all 🇺🇸
I was unwrapping chocolates and Ian said “just like Lucy Liu” and I was like ? and then I realized he was talking about Lucille Ball…
We really don't
We need to have a serious conversation about Pedro Pascal…
Fixating on AI’s overuse of em dashes is itself a sign of subliteracy. The neatnik syntax, the nauseating sentence fragments, the grotesque LinkedIn chipperness: maybe you don’t notice these things because you use them yourself…
I don’t think there’s anything more to the nameless-narrator phenomenon beyond the fact that it’s kind of awkward to say “My name is Matt”
Sorry to drag TCW again but the idea that 2020 has been “memory-holed” is insane. It is the dominant trauma narrative of the contemporary right-wing, recycled and repurposed to numberless ends, ad nauseam and ad infinitum
“I am 63 and have looked at decades of skies” is beautiful
Lots of bots and trolls having fun with my post about this effect in particulate that came out of planes but I am doubling down. I am 63 and have looked at decades of skies and these patterns did not appear til this decade. Bot all you like. Whatever it is, needs scrutiny.
I love suburban office parks, music made with computers, and the food at the Moynihan Food Hall
Man will be punished for this
The demolition of Sheraton Crossroads Hotel in Mahwah, New Jersey
The protagonist of the first story in Rejection weighs in
