Why Are You Like This?
Sam DissA newsletter about stories, storytelling, and storytellers.
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a day-drunk matinée idol in a half-kilo hairpiece
I’ve been away for a minute. Work’s been consuming but I kept a date in my diary for this one, the second instalment of Essay Club: another chance to revisit one of my all-time favourite pieces — “The Last Swinger”, by Tom Junod.
I am — an...
energy and voice
Big Joachim by my mate Niall Hodson, for British GQ
Last Friday, the second in my series of profiles-with-stylish-footballers came out. This time, it was me profiling Joachim Andersen — Crystal Palace’s big handsome beefcake of a centre-ha...
the last swinger
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It’s time for another edition of Essay Club.
The rules are simple: We all read the same essay before Tuesday 14th May, and meet up in the comments of that day’s ‘sletter. We’ll have a chat together there. The last affair...
collective effervescence
‘Football Fans’ by John Edwe (2018)
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In the secularity of capitalism, football’s magic is withering. Sport has always been about divining the sacred from the profane, but let’s just say things haven’t been quite this profane before....
say it, mean it, back it up
A quick essay from me this week on a topic somehow still rattling around the discourse somehow. I’ll be mixing up short-ish essays with top tens going forward, just to keep myself amused.
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a writer and strategist, mostly working in football.
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