Nathan Deuel
@nathandeuel.bsky.social
Ocean Lifeguard. Author, FRIDAY WAS THE BOMB, Amazon Best Book of the Month. Has written @ NYT Mag, Harper's, GQ, etc. Continuing Lecturer @ UCLA. Lives in Venice Beach, CA
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I am excited to share that the New York Times put my college radio story on page one of today’s style section!
One my fav places to write serious and rugged essays about the writing life and literature is the great @lithub.com.web.brid.gy and it's always a pleasure writing for @jonnydiamond.bsky.social and crew. Consider becoming a member! I know my mom did. lithub.memberful.com/join
Literary Hub
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December 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
One my fav places to write serious and rugged essays about the writing life and literature is the great @lithub.com.web.brid.gy and it's always a pleasure writing for @jonnydiamond.bsky.social and crew. Consider becoming a member! I know my mom did. lithub.memberful.com/join
I'm an ocean lifeguard. Anyone in the L.A. area have an event that would enjoyone of our iconic red trucks, a couple of lifeguards, a booth, and a few hours of us explaining junior guards, beach safety, and how to become a full-fledged ocean lifeguard for the best agency in the world? Let me know!
December 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I'm an ocean lifeguard. Anyone in the L.A. area have an event that would enjoyone of our iconic red trucks, a couple of lifeguards, a booth, and a few hours of us explaining junior guards, beach safety, and how to become a full-fledged ocean lifeguard for the best agency in the world? Let me know!
I am excited to share that the New York Times put my college radio story on page one of today’s style section!
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I am excited to share that the New York Times put my college radio story on page one of today’s style section!
I love college radio and I wrote about my favorite station for The New York Times... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
College Radio Keeps Its Cool
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November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I love college radio and I wrote about my favorite station for The New York Times... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
What are people's favorite college radio stations? Emphasis on non-commercial, non-NPR, music-focused. cc: @whetmoser.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
What are people's favorite college radio stations? Emphasis on non-commercial, non-NPR, music-focused. cc: @whetmoser.com
Hey mom, I’m in the paper!
September 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Hey mom, I’m in the paper!
I wrote about the way I drive now, which is slow, for the New York Times Mag: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/m...
My Secret for Finding Peace in Traffic
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September 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I wrote about the way I drive now, which is slow, for the New York Times Mag: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/m...
Oops forgot about this place again
August 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Oops forgot about this place again
A line I just re-encountered: "'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."
July 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A line I just re-encountered: "'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."
Sometimes I am confused by the people of Los Angeles. Then I remember that everyone is stoned, is something I first thought to myself in 2014
July 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Sometimes I am confused by the people of Los Angeles. Then I remember that everyone is stoned, is something I first thought to myself in 2014
I forgot this place existed, ooops
July 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I forgot this place existed, ooops
Alert! Roving mud puddle terrorizing a little corner of California via @themorningnews.org www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
Attack of the 75-Foot Roving Mud Puddle
A pool of sludge is wreaking havoc on road infrastructure near the Salton Sea.
www.altaonline.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Alert! Roving mud puddle terrorizing a little corner of California via @themorningnews.org www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
It used to be so depressing when really lazy students used Wikipedia. Now that seems so quaint
May 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It used to be so depressing when really lazy students used Wikipedia. Now that seems so quaint
If you have any questions, call (334) 844-4244
May 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you have any questions, call (334) 844-4244
Nations clash, rulers spied, a man ate a human heart. Everyone watched a bullfight. We, aghast, furiously tried to polish a beautiful stone
May 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Nations clash, rulers spied, a man ate a human heart. Everyone watched a bullfight. We, aghast, furiously tried to polish a beautiful stone
If "Smooth" by Santa feat Rob Thomas was the only song you could ever hear again would you give up on music entirely or listen forever to Smooth by Santa feat Rob Thomas???
May 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
If "Smooth" by Santa feat Rob Thomas was the only song you could ever hear again would you give up on music entirely or listen forever to Smooth by Santa feat Rob Thomas???
A genuine thrill in midlife in Los Angeles is moving over for a motorcycle on the freeway and having that motorcyclist lower a hand and give you a cool acknowledgment for how cool you are
May 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A genuine thrill in midlife in Los Angeles is moving over for a motorcycle on the freeway and having that motorcyclist lower a hand and give you a cool acknowledgment for how cool you are
My favorite mag writer (Elif Batuman) profiling my favorite newish-to-me novelist (Murata) is fucking RADDDDD: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Sayaka Murata’s Alien Eye
The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.
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May 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My favorite mag writer (Elif Batuman) profiling my favorite newish-to-me novelist (Murata) is fucking RADDDDD: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Check out how the 'LA Times' packages the 30 best novels of the last 30 years. (I wrote up their pick for Number One): www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
The 30 best fiction books of the last 30 years
To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.
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April 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Check out how the 'LA Times' packages the 30 best novels of the last 30 years. (I wrote up their pick for Number One): www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I did a really hard thing
April 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I did a really hard thing
It's bad but it's gonna get so much worse
April 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
It's bad but it's gonna get so much worse
In 11 years of riding the bus in Los Angeles I’ve never seen someone read a paper copy of the New York Times. Today is that day.
April 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In 11 years of riding the bus in Los Angeles I’ve never seen someone read a paper copy of the New York Times. Today is that day.
Nuked our Amazon Prime and embracing the challenge of sourcing all the crap I always buy so easily
March 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Nuked our Amazon Prime and embracing the challenge of sourcing all the crap I always buy so easily
Wish I still worked at The Village Voice c. 2005
March 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Wish I still worked at The Village Voice c. 2005