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Hey, How'd You Blog Full-time and Write a Book, Will Leitch?

Gawker Media's main Deadspin contributor chats about the blog, his newest book, and his boss

By Noah Davis – February 20, 2008
The best adjective to describe Will Leitch, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, is spastic. He talks nonstop about anything and everything -- mostly sports, the primary subject of Deadspin, the Gawker Media blog he founded in 2005 and for which he remains the principle contributor. For a man who spent the past five months blogging full-time for Deadspin and penning his third book, God Save The Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional Convicted Quarterback Have Taken the Fun Out of Sports (And How We Can Get It Back) (seriously)...
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