Newsletter 133: Turning Seven, and then Turning Eight

Will Leitch
6 min readNov 15, 2019

I’ve decided to start putting some of the best newsletter essays here on Medium, so more people can read them. You’re still better off just subscribing. This one is November 2018, about my son turning seven. Since he turns eight next week, this seemed like a good time to re-run it.

The first time I remember getting mad at my father was October 10, 1982. 1982 was a bit of…

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Will Leitch

Author of six books, including “How Lucky” and "The Time Has Come." NYMag/MLB.. Founder, Deadspin. https://williamfleitch.substack.com