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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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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.

Drew Magary

Life Lessons

Confessions Of A Bookanizer

Jae Towle Vieira [they/them] works as a producer for Normal Gossip. Their fiction has been published in The Normal School, New England Review, Carve Magazine, Passages North, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere.

Jae Towle Vieira

Arts And Culture

Here Is What Reading To My Child Has Done To My Brain

Kelsey McKinney

black and white woodblock print of a scene in love's labour's lost

Bills Week

Shakespeare Makes Me A Slower And Better Reader

David Roth

Chris "Mad Dog" Russo looking smug or sleepy, depending on your perspective, on radio row in Las Vegas before the Super Bowl.

Podcasts

Looter Capitalism, Loser Capitalists, And Mad Dog Russo Mindset

Defector Staff

Shoppers in Paris flock to buy the new edition of the grammar book 'Grammaire de l'Academie Francaise', 1932.

Year In Review

The Best Things We Read In 2023

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

Nicholas Russell

Antique print of whalers harpooning a sperm whale off New Bedford, Massachusetts. The print is from 1910.

A Year In Pursuit Of Moby Dick

The Queen Of Writing The Beautiful Mundane

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