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"Why do guys have to sleep at all?"
Some thoughts on a curious little man who seemed to have been born for one thing, which he did brilliantly, all while gleefully running himself into an…
 • Ben Fowlkes
Now is the envy of all the dead
Recently I stumbled across this 2014 essay in The New Yorker by Roger Angell, who was 93 when he wrote it.
 • Ben Fowlkes
We watched a dog run into traffic the other day...
So I was picking my daughter up from a friend’s house on what passes for a semi-busy street in Missoula, Montana.
 • Ben Fowlkes
The unexpected joys of reading Just Some Person's diary from like 150 years ago
So the other day I’m watching the Ken Burns documentary series on the American Civil War.
 • Ben Fowlkes
Here in America we're unhinged and heavily armed and we must like it that way because we're doing nothing at all to change it
In the aftermath of another shooting we are mostly concerned with arguing about which direction to point the guns in next — and it's the same direction…
 • Ben Fowlkes
Reading an infamous old boxer's harrowing memoir kinda messed me up, man
They don't make 'em like this anymore. Which is both good and bad.
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In defense of the midlife crisis
The good part is running out. So if you're not loving where you're at, maybe you should freak out a little bit.
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The Fighting Life
The Fighting Life
Just straight up writin' stuff. Occasional meandering philosophizing, sometimes dovetailing with my long career covering fight sports. Or not.

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