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Daniel Lefferts

8 months

The day has come! WAYS AND MEANS is out in the world. I could not have done it without my editor @zackknoll_ , my agent Chris Clemans, and many, many more. I hope you’ll pick up a copy 💚

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

8 months

I have an essay in the @parisreview ! It’s about the year I spent dating—and writing about—men in finance. Thank you @diamonddustpaw and @SophieHaigney for the brilliant edits. Enjoy 👔

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

7 months

A good week to read one of the greatest essays ever written

Total Eclipse

"Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him."

www.theatlantic.com

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

1 month

Engaged 👇

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

2 years

Are they hiring themselves to do it?

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2 years

McKinsey, the consulting firm, is cutting about 2000 jobs.

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25 days

I think it’s OK for sex to be about sex…

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

6 months

Ways and Means has been out for two months! Thank you to everyone who’s read it. If you haven’t picked it up, horny finance students, evil private equity bros, and MAGA twinks await you :-)

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

3 months

I have been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize! Very honored, and in great company 💚

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

5 months

I was profiled in Bloomberg! I talked to @antoniabmassa about Ways and Means, dating finance bros, writing about money, and reading Economist articles so boring they’re avant-garde

Private Lives Beneath Wall Street Glitz Are Revealed in a New Book

A novelist does real-world research for his debut, Ways and Means.

www.bloomberg.com

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

28 days

Ways and Means coded :-/

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@SecretgAgent

28 days

Fed rate decision tomorrow!! Announcement on Wed 2pm EST. 🥰😛

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3 months

Rained for 90 seconds 🙏

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

3 months

Gay version can be found here:

My Year of Finance Boys - The Paris Review

“I’d conjured a fantasy of a finance boy, and here he was, in the flesh, as radiantly banal and enthrallingly uninteresting as I’d expected him to be.”

www.theparisreview.org

The Cut

@TheCut

3 months

This is the ‘Summer of the Finance Bro,’ so writer Joanna Rothkopf set out to talk to men ‘in finance, trust fund, six-five, blue eyes’ about their dating lives.

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Daniel Lefferts

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4 months

Ways and Means (2024)

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Daniel Lefferts

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2 months

Thinking of them today ❤️

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

7 months

I made it to the dressing room

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

4 months

Could have used this article a few months ago

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

7 months

The HMD to Easter Mass pipeline

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

1 year

My book has a cover! Thank you to the artists at @ABRAMSbooks for this. On sale Feb. 6, 2024. More about the book (and preorder link 😏) here:

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

18 days

Very pleased to be mentioned in this alongside Bret Easton Ellis and Edith Wharton (my besties). 44:30 onward

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

5 months

I enjoyed every word of @DPD_ ’s The Talent. A scathing, moving, and deeply perceptive novel about the hollowness and glory of fame. The world is going to love this

Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

6 months

Hottest manuscript in town @DPD_

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Daniel Lefferts

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2 months

Nothing as thrilling as telling a group of gays you haven’t read Dancer from the Dance…

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

2 months

Finished this stunner last night. An Americans-abroad/masculinity-in-crisis novel that quickly becomes something much stranger and more profound. No one is doing it like @ailipstein . Bravo 👏

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

25 days

I wrote about this in my book. Evil stuff

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

26 days

NEW: Mobile homes are one of the last remaining affordable housing options in America. Now they’ve become private equity’s latest target. Private equity firms now own at least 1200 parks nationwide. Residents have seen their rents spike by as much as 100% in the last 6 years.

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4 months

No one at the gym knows I’m listening to the theme from The Leftovers…

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

4 months

Ways and Means in Vanity Fair, thank you @christress 🩵

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

4 months

Made it

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@daniel_lefferts

4 months

Waiting for the ferryman to take me to Hell

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Daniel Lefferts

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2 months

5:59 a.m.

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7 days

Pure evil. I loved it

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

26 days

Here’s what the Fed rate cut means for you 🫵

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6 months

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

5 months

So far my research for my new book has involved reading interviews with gay porn stars, reading the New Testament, going to Miami, and trying to understand crypto…

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

8 months

For @BOMBmagazine I spoke with one of my dearest friends about WAYS AND MEANS, money in fiction, outdated gay narratives, the middle ground between political instrumentalism and pure aesthetics, and Target

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

8 months

This was fun

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

3 months

Just want to point out that when it comes to 2024 neon-green cover art a certain debut novelist was there first…

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

9 months

Out next Tuesday

Rick Perlstein

@rickperlstein

9 months

Why is there no great recent American art about one of the most dramatic things to happen in our history, the rise of fascism?

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

6 months

Last day of 34…plus ça change…

Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

1 year

Last day of my Jesus year

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

9 months

WAYS AND MEANS is out in 2 weeks! Perfect for friends, loved ones, MBAs, demented gays. Get it 📈

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

3 months

Honored to contribute ❤️

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

2 months

Ways and Means 2 (2026)

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

4 months

Happy NYC Pride from this straight wedding in the Poconos

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

3 months

Historic landmark (site of my first date in college)

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3 months

The Astor Place Starbucks closed for good last night. The SB signage is gone from this 4k-foot space, which they'd been in since March '95. Management told @Joy_of_photos that "the landlords jacked up the rent so astronomically high that even corporate Starbucks couldn't pay it."

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

2 months

People asking B&N employees if they have my book

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

2 months

Bf already booked the Pines house for next summer

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

6 months

I’m stuck

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17 days

Will no one write a novel about DC defense contractor gays or do I have to do everything myself…

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1 month

He came prepared

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

10 months

Good mail day

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Daniel Lefferts

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7 months

One of the most extraordinary reading experiences of my life

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

8 months

WAYS AND MEANS at my hometown Barnes & Noble. 17-year-old me (waiting for his caramel latte at the in-store Starbucks, drenched in Fierce by Abercrombie & Fitch) would weep

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

6 months

Just won a spelling bee in Jersey City New Jersey drunk 👆

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Daniel Lefferts

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3 months

Until recently I thought when someone got their tires rotated it just meant the mechanic raised up the car and spun the wheels…not sure what I thought that would accomplish but that’s what I thought happened

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

6 months

Hottest manuscript in town @DPD_

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@daniel_lefferts

2 months

When people say someone is a “great writer but, even more important, a great person”…no, that really is not more important…

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

1 month

I do and it’s correct

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1 month

I don't know about this

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

5 months

:-)

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@fkapigz

5 months

one of the best books I’ve read in years

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

2 months

Remembering the time I visited my friend in Richmond and told her I was gonna have a character in my book be from there and she said “Ooh exciting! Who’s the character?!” and I had to tell her it was a gay fascist :-/

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Daniel Lefferts

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1 year

Starred review for Ways and Means in PW! Come for the financial malfeasance and edgelord gays, stay for the love story :-) Out Feb 6!

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

3 months

Not the most important thing in American politics right now (probably #3 or #4 ) but the possessive is Harris’s not Harris’ <3

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

14 days

When I was 16 I wrote Jonathan Franzen a 4-page single-spaced fan letter and he wrote me back and it changed my life 🖤

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

6 months

Best editor, best human, no one more deserving

Zack Knoll

@zackknoll_

6 months

Some professional news! I'm very grateful to do work I love with so many people who love doing it. Tremendous thanks to all of my authors, new and old, and to the thoughtful ecosystem of publishing people who have supported and championed me & my work over the years.

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

2 years

My parents’ King Charles spaniel minutes after hearing the news

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Daniel Lefferts

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2 months

My boyfriend is in South America and I’m at Supercuts

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Daniel Lefferts

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7 months

Bf got out of bed with a haunted expression and immediately started working. “The Germans are already emailing me…”

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1 month

No more traveling

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Daniel Lefferts

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5 months

An important entry in the Summer of Sexy Tennis. Highly recommend

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3 months

I would like for Things to stop Happening

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Daniel Lefferts

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3 months

Bf just told me how much I owe for my Pines Party ticket

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Daniel Lefferts

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7 months

We saw you across the bar

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3 months

Bf is bringing his own fork and knife to a restaurant because he doesn’t like theirs…

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2 months

Gym is “making changes” to the room where the gays took their selfies

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7 months

Ways and Means is everywhere for those with eyes to see…

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Daniel Lefferts

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2 months

Imagine staking your career on right-wing gutter politics and not even being that good at it…

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2 months

Laphonza Butler spkg - (she filled Feinstein’s seat) - celebrating that she and Harris both graduated from historically black colleges. Imagine the white person up there: I’m proud to tell you I went to a mostly white university!

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Criterion Collection...

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Daniel Lefferts

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4 months

This weekend at pride I ****** ***** ******* but then ***** ***** *** ***** for ****** ***, so **** *****, ***** ***, and ******* ***** with **** ****** but I don't have photos :-/

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Daniel Lefferts

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Gonna Airbnb my Hudson apt for $75,000/night

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Daniel Lefferts

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8 months

Thank you for having me #YeahYouWrite (and for the salacious gift I will not be posting!)

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2 months

I can’t even walk around with an ice cream cone without thinking “this is just like that part at the Galleria in The Shards”

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Daniel Lefferts

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6 months

Antique-hunting tourists continue to come to my town, put their faces to the windows of my gym, and stare at me as if I’m for sale (I am)

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Daniel Lefferts

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5 months

Now that I’m 35 I can finally run for president :-)

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4 days

Gays in MAGA hats. If only there were a recent novel (on sale everywhere) that explored the phenomenon...

Outspoken

@GetOutspokenUSA

8 days

Cheaper groceries. Stronger borders. Safer communities. We’re gay, not stupid. #Trump2024

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2 months

Love getting emails about adjunct teaching jobs that start in two days…

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Daniel Lefferts

@daniel_lefferts

8 months

Last night was a dream launch. Thank you to @ptknitwear for having us, @GrantGinder for being moderator of the year, and everyone for coming <3

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Daniel Lefferts

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5 months

Going to Europe with my bf but he’s gonna be working the whole time

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2 months

Nice

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Daniel Lefferts

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3 months

I continue to get the very best book mail

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I love fall

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6 months

It’s gonna be a great summer

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1 year

Ways and Means at the Brooklyn Book Festival 😌

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6 months

Many legs are saying this!

Rhodes Hambrick, MD, MS

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6 months

Today was a good day to enjoy the work of @daniel_lefferts

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3 months

Dope move

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7 months

One of the liveliest and most interesting writers working today 🤷‍♂️

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2 months

🍃 (🍂?)

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I’m coming to that city you all live in

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6 months

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius literally...

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A LURID HOMOEROTIC NOIR…

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Just realized Cape Cod is named after cod…

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I do think Vance “won” but I also think he radiated the sort of alien, over-credentialed, antiseptic “elitism” that Republicans have long attributed to Democrats and that everyone hates…

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Bf thinks he can build a better campfire