Diary of an Author

I was shocked and appalled to find out that Daniel Piper had only just started reading his Diary as a podcast. As his Serious Literary Advisor (SLA) I have been silently encouraging him to do so for a very long time. If only he had asked, as I assumed he would, he would have known that I’d been begging him to do so. I’m sorry for this blunder. I will make sure next time that my thoughts, much like Daniel’s Substack, are more thoroughly read.

For those of you who may not know, Daniel Piper is a humor diarist with a global and loyal fanbase. He is followed by Taylor Swift and me. His discerning fans — nicknamed: littérateurs — love the amusing and droll character stories Piper creates via the omnipotent keyboard of a very, very serious author with a deep, deep identity crisis. His brilliant and sassy essays (BASE) pair nicely in podcast short-format. As a warning, and it’s definitely not hyperbole, but Daniel’s brash British accent could literally send hundreds, nay thousands, of littérateurs into literary ecstasy—something he muses as “wrisexual euphoria”, or “word estrus”. Follow along to learn more.

Occasionally in life, one comes across a work of such transcendent creative genius that it moves beyond mere art and art’s highest form - literature. This work is well beyond that.

Oddly, for someone who so consistently insists that he is Serious, the podcast is consigned to the “comedy” category. Moreover (a word I am allowed to use in this case because of the truly Serious nature of the categorization) the podcast is also labeled “clean,” even though it includes an excerpt from his unpublished erotic novel, which includes such smutty content such as, “”I like sex,” she said.” The accent and tone of voice is everything one could hope to hear from a Serious British Journalist. If you can only listen to one podcast—well, listen to someone who is the top person in your chosen profession; or listen to your mother’s podcast if she has one, and simply read Daniel Piper on Substack. But if you listen to dozens of podcasts, then this should be one of them.