威尔-雷奇(Will Leitch),《纽约客》杂志网络版特约记者威尔·莱奇(Will Leitch) ,《福布斯》评出的2008年25位互联网名人之一
年龄:32(2008年)
职业:体育博客
个人网站:http://deadspin.com/
雷奇是体育博客Deadspin的创始编辑,该网站目前已成为全球最大的独立体育博客。经过Gawker Media出版之后,该博客平均每天页面访问量超过28万。此前,雷奇曾是一度流行的“黑桌”网站的创始编辑。他还撰写了回忆录《失败者人生》、小说《抓住》,以及两部即将出版的新书《上帝拯救爱好者》和《还你本来面目》。
简介编辑本段回目录
William F. Leitch (born October 10, 1975 in Mattoon, Illinois) is a writer based in New York City and the founding editor of the Gawker Media sports blog Deadspin. Leitch is a contributing editor at New York magazine, a contributor to The New York Times, GQ, Fast Company and Slate, and has published four books, Catch, a novel, Life as a Loser, a memoir, God Save The Fan, a book of sports essays, and Are We Winning?, a book about fatherhood and baseball.
Leitch grew up in Mattoon, Illinois, which is also the setting of Catch. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While there, he was an editor at the University's paper, the Daily Illini. He now lives in Brooklyn.
One of Leitch's first glances with fame came when he appeared on one of the early episodes of Win Ben Stein's Money. In an excerpt from Life as a Loser, published on Blacktable.com, Leitch describes the experience of taping this episode within hours of being dumped by his fiancée (a fact that co-host Jimmy Kimmel included in Leitch's introduction).
Career[edit] IronMinds.comLife As A Loser appeared on Ironminds, an online magazine that existed from 1999-2002.
The Black TableIn January 2003, Leitch became a founding editor of the website The Black Table, with Eric Gillin, A.J. Daulerio and Aileen Gallagher. His Life As A Loser column ran online for five years and was ultimately compiled into a book of the same title, with a foreword written by Tom Perrotta.
DeadspinIn September 2005, Leitch became the founding editor of Deadspin. Deadspin is the most popular independent sports blog on the web,[not in citation given] and has been profiled in Sports Illustrated and The New York Times. Leitch announced on June 5, 2008 that he would be leaving Deadspin at the end of the month to become a contributing editor at New York magazine.
Other workDuring the 2007 NCAA Tournament[disambiguation needed], Leitch wrote a daily column for TimesSelect, the paid section of The New York Times. During the 2007 baseball playoffs, Leitch wrote a daily column for The New York Times' Web site.
Leitch was featured in the February 2008 issue of Penthouse magazine.
On May 4, 2010, Leitch released his fourth book, Are We Winning?. Leitch describes the book as being about baseball and fatherhood. It takes place during a game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals. It is about how children communicate with their fathers through sports. It is about rivalries and fellowship, using baseball as a substitute for real life.
CriticismLeitch was criticized by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Buzz Bissinger on an April 2008 episode of Costas Now for the lack of quality writing on sports blogs. He has also faced criticism for comments in his book that questioned the blackness of some prominent African-American sports figures such as Tony Dungy and Bryant Gumbel.
书籍编辑本段回目录
Life As A Loser. Arriviste Press, Inc.. 2004. ISBN 0-9746270-0-3.
Catch. Razorbill. 2005. ISBN 978-1-59514-069-2.
God Save The Fan. HarperCollins. 2008. ISBN 978-0061351785.
Are We Winning?. Hyperion. 2010. ISBN 978-1401323707.