I tried to talk Knicks fans through what is happening for @nymag. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Issue 419 of my free weekly newsletter just came out. It’s free and weekly and features an original essay as well as links to everything I wrote this week. You should subscribe, you might like it. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-iss…

A general life goal I have is that, if I ever get diagnosed with a brain worm, not everyone who has ever heard or seen me do literally anything says, collectively, at once, “well THAT explains it.”

Issue 418 of my free weekly newsletter just came out. It's free and weekly and features an original essay as well as links to everything I wrote that week. You should subscribe, you might like it. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-iss…

For @nymag, I wrote about Tom Thibodeau, the Knicks' brilliant, beautiful mustard stain of a genius head coach. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

New episode! We review two very good movies:

1) 'Challengers'
2) 'The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed'

Apple: open.spotify.com/episode/2b1idE…

Spotify: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cha…

We hope you're well. Summer movie season is nearly upon us.

Issue 417 of my free weekly newsletter just came out. It’s free and weekly and features an original essay as well as links to everything I wrote that week. You should subscribe, you might like it. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-iss…

My old editor, boss, and friend (and one of my favorite humans) Adam Moss put together a wonderful book of conversations about art and artists called 'The Work of Art.' (Hear him on Ezra Klein's podcast talking about it.) Adam is the best. Buy the book. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669522/t…

For @nymag, I wrote about sports as distraction, and why one of the primary reasons sports are booming right now is because they allow us to avoid thinking about ... other things. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

I don't want to overreact to this, but I am now convinced the Knicks are not only winning the NBA Finals, but also the World Series, the Super Bowl and the upcoming Olympic Modern Pentathlon.

Issue 416 of my free weekly newsletter just came out. It’s free and weekly and features an original essay as well as links to everything I wrote that week. You should subscribe, you might like it. open.substack.com/pub/williamfle…

'You can go to a St. Louis Cardinals game right now and you will see someone in a Whitey Herzog jersey. People still loved him so much.'

Will Leitch talks about the Hall of Fame manager and how he impacted the people of St. Louis. #MLBNow

This man was at least 35 percent of the reason I had a happy childhood. RIP, White Rat.

Issue 415 of my free weekly newsletter just came out. It’s free and weekly and features an original essay as well as links to everything I wrote that week. You should subscribe, you might like it. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-iss…

I wrote about OJ for New York Magazine. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Shoutout to Mike Cetera 👐, who found the 1995 Daily Illini front page that I designed as the night editor that evening. I honestly thought it would be the biggest story any of us would ever cover in our lives. The Nineties, man.

'OJ: Made in America' remains one of the greatest documentaries I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it, watch it, and if you have, watch it again. espn.com/espn/feature/s…

Every piece I write for New York Magazine about the Knicks should probably just have the headline, “Man, Check Out How Much This Guy Loves the Knicks.” (These headlines would be consistently accurate.) nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Issue 414 of my free weekly newsletter just came out. It’s free and weekly and features an original essay as well as links to everything I wrote that week. You should subscribe, you might like it. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-iss…

I'm writing a new weekly @mlb column called Five Fascinations, inspired by Zach Lowe's great 'Ten Things' column on ESPN. It's about baseball, and it's not as good as Zach's stuff, but I hope it's fun and that you like it. It runs every Friday morning. mlb.com/news/top-story…