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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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Dan Brooks writes essays and fiction from Missoula, Montana.

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Taylor Swift performs onstage during the Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour at MetLife Stadium on July 21, 2018 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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Mods Asleep

Culture Needs More Jerks

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

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Nicholas Russell

Englishmen in Paris gathered in Galignani’s library, 1820. English gentlemen read books, newspapers and periodicals. Doctor Syntax discovered by his wife in a bookshop. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Charles Williams from Doctor Syntax in Paris; or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque, W. Wright, London, 1820.

Englishmen in Paris gathered in Galignani‚Äôs library, 1820

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“It Really Matters If Somebody Has Bad Taste”: An Interview With Book Critic Becca Rothfeld

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Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from Killers Of The Flower Moon

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Arts And Culture

‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Asks You To Sit With Its Contradictions

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

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Drew Magary

Roger Ebert & Gene Siskel dinning at the Brown Derby Restaurant, Walt Disney World, Florida in 1990

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I Don’t Need Everyone’s Opinion On Everything

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