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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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Alex Sujong Laughlin

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Andrew Coates 17 yrs doing his homework, 40 Cook Rd, Centennial Park.

Defector Reads A Book

Your Defector Pals Attempt ‘The Artist’s Way’

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Maitreyi Anantharaman

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Rachelle Hampton

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Giri Nathan

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Patrick Redford

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David Roth

Firefighters wash up after fighting the O'Brien Creek fire. Lolo national Forest, Montana, August 21, 1940.

Firefighters Wash Up After Forest Fire

Racing With Mortality In Norman Maclean’s ‘Young Men And Fire’

Forest Firefighters Entering Plane

Defector Reads A Book Is Leaping Toward The Fire

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Madame De Pompadour

Arts And Culture

Books You Can Read Tonight To Distract Yourself From Whatever Is To Come

<a href="https://twitter.com/petesegall?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pete Segall</a> lives in Chicago. His fiction has appeared in The Bennington Review, Conjunctions, The Drift, and elsewhere.

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Manchester United players Tommy Taylor, left, and Ken Morgans, line up before playing Arsenal at their Highbury Stadium, 1st February 1958. This was Taylor's last match, he died in the plane crash that killed 8 of the Busby Babes team in Munich less than a week later.

Taylor And Morgans

In David Peace’s ‘Munichs,’ The Dead Are Everywhere You Look