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Drew Magary
BornAndrew Schuyler Magary
(1976-10-07) 7 October 1976 (age 48)
Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • humorist
  • columnist
  • novelist
Alma materColby College
University of Michigan
GenresScience fiction, Humor
Website
drewmagary.com

Andrew Schuyler Magary (born 7 October 1976) is an American[1] journalist, humor columnist, and novelist. He was a correspondent for GQ, has written three novels, and formerly was a long-time columnist for Deadspin.[2] He currently writes for Defector Media and SF Gate and is the author of The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life after Brain Damage, a memoir chronicling his brain injury and subsequent recovery.[3]

Early life

Andrew Schuyler Magary[4] was born in Wahroonga, a suburb of Sydney, Australia.[5] He moved with his parents to the U.S. at the age of four months and grew up in Minnesota[5] and Connecticut. Both of Magary's parents and his two siblings are American-born; Magary was born while his family briefly relocated to Sydney for his father's job.[6] He attended the University of Michigan before transferring to Colby College in Maine, where he majored in English and participated in the drama club. Early in his career, Magary worked in advertising.[citation needed]

Career

Journalism

Magary was one of the contributors to the NFL humor website Kissing Suzy Kolber. He later became a contributor to the sports website Deadspin and became the site's columnist, providing commentary and answering reader mail in an irreverent and often profane style, reminiscent of Bill Simmons's mailbag editorial feature.[7] In addition to the main Deadspin site, he also contributed to its culture sub-site The Concourse and humor sub-site Adequate Man. His annual "Why Your Team Sucks" columns were featured on Deadspin and are currently featured on Defector, in which he roasts every NFL franchise and mocks the weaknesses of both the team and its city.[8] He announced his departure from the site via a post on his personal Kinja page on 31 October 2019.[9]

Magary has worked frequently as a correspondent for GQ magazine. In 2013 Magary interviewed Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson for the magazine and the article became widely covered for several comments made by Robertson, particularly concerning homosexuality.[10] He has also written articles for NBC, Maxim, Rolling Stone, Comedy Central, New York, ESPN, Yahoo!, Playboy, The Atlantic, and Penthouse.[11][12][13]

Chopped

In 2012, Magary applied to appear on an amateurs episode of the cooking competition show Chopped. He posted the answers to the application's questions in an installment of his humor column on Deadspin.[14][15]

In April 2015, Magary appeared on the ninth episode of Chopped's 22nd season, which featured other amateur home cooks, and won the episode's $10,000 prize.[16] After the episode aired, his Deadspin colleague and former NFL player Chris Kluwe posted a satirical review of the episode.[17]

Accident

On 10 December 2018, Deadspin editor-in-chief Megan Greenwell made an announcement stating:

Irredeemable Vikings fan and beloved voice of Deadspin Drew Magary has been moved to the injured reserve list after an accident last week. He is receiving the best possible care, is surrounded by his family and friends, and is doing well under the circumstances.[18]

When asked to elaborate on what happened, Greenwell stated, "We’re not giving details out of respect for his family’s privacy. Thanks for understanding."[18]

The last time Magary tweeted before his accident was on 5 December 2018 at 10:22 p.m. EST [19] — the same date as the annual Deadspin Awards he attended, which took place at the Irving Plaza in New York.

On 19 December at 1:54 EST, two weeks to the day after his accident, he tweeted for the first time, stating, "Good evening. Greetings from Manhattan where I am currently NOT dead".[20]

On 21 December, Magary tweeted, "So I'm drinking and singing bad karaoke and I pass out, then I start choking on my blood," which was part of a thread in which he explained that he needed emergency neck surgery and stayed in a coma for a week.[21] Magary later described the tweets as "an incoherent, blazingly inaccurate summary" written while still disoriented from the medically-induced coma.[22] The tweets were all subsequently deleted.[23][21][24] On Christmas day, his wife tweeted the following from his account, "Hey universe. Drew’s wife here. He wanted me to pass on MERRY CHRISTMAS! He is doing better. Wanted to clarify what happened to him as he falsely tweeted last week while cooped up in a rehab bed. He was not drunk when he suddenly collapsed. He is on his way to recovery."[25]

On 25 April 2019, Magary for the first time disclosed accurate details in the pre-NFL Draft edition of Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo: "Nearly five months ago, I suffered a severe brain hemorrhage while I was just standing around at a work party. When I collapsed I fractured my skull. That fracture tore through the inner ear on the right side of my head, rendering it inoperable for good."[26]

On 16 May 2019, Magary authored an editorial which laid out the details of his accident and his subsequent recovery.[27] On 12 October 2021, he published a memoir, The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life after Brain Damage, about his experience with the injury and recovery.[3]

Resignation from Deadspin

On 31 October 2019, Magary announced his resignation from Deadspin.[9] Since the purchase of Deadspin in April 2019, editorial and journalistic staff had complained about mismanagement, which culminated in the departure of the entire editorial and journalistic staff during October and November 2019.[28]

Post-Deadspin

From August 2019 to September 2020, Magary wrote about politics and culture for Gen, a Medium publication.[29][30] Since April 2020, Magary has been a columnist at SF Gate, a digital sister-site of the San Francisco Chronicle.[31]

Magary and other former Deadspin writers formed Defector Media in 2020.[32]

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

  • Men with Balls: The Professional Athlete's Handbook (2008), sports humor book
  • Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood (2013), non-fiction memoir
  • The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life after Brain Damage (2021), non-fiction memoir

References

  1. ^ Hater's Guide to the World Cup Deadspin
  2. ^ "Drew Magary - Sports News Headlines & Highlights". Deadspin. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  3. ^ a b Khatib, Joumana; Egan, Elisabeth (16 September 2021). "7 New Memoirs to Read This Season". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  4. ^ Magary, Drew. "A Message To Heat Vision Jesus". Deadspin. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  5. ^ a b Magary, Drew. "How To Be Cold". Deadspin. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  6. ^ "My Weird Australia Thing". 4 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Drew Magary: Articles - Deadspin". Kinja.com.
  8. ^ "Why Your Team Sucks 2016 - Sports News Headlines & Highlights". Deadspin. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  9. ^ a b "This Is How It's Gonna Work". Drew Magary. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  10. ^ Drew Magary GQ
  11. ^ Drew Magary Huffington Post
  12. ^ What I Read Drew Magary The Wire
  13. ^ Drew Magary The Atlantic
  14. ^ Magary, Drew. "Our Drew Magary Applied For A Spot On Chopped; This Is His Application". Deadspin. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  15. ^ Chou, Jessica (10 July 2012). "The Best 'Chopped' Application You'll Read All Day". The Daily Meal. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  16. ^ "Food Network Gossip: Deadspin's Drew Magary Competes On Chopped Amateurs". foodnetworkgossip.com.
  17. ^ Kluwe, Chris. "Drew Magary Won Chopped Last Night And It's A Goddamn National Disgrace". Deadspin. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  18. ^ a b Greenwell, Megan. "A Note On Drew". Deadspin. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  19. ^ @drewmagary (5 December 2018). "@TheTedAllen @Bourdain @andrewzimmern Sir, your kind tweet has made me thumb dance once more" (Tweet). Retrieved 21 May 2019 – via Twitter.
  20. ^ "A Note from Drew". 10 December 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  21. ^ a b [1][dead link‍]
  22. ^ "The Night the Lights Went Out".
  23. ^ [2][dead link‍]
  24. ^ [3][dead link‍]
  25. ^ @drewmagary (25 December 2018). "Hey universe. Drew's wife here. He wanted me to pass on MERRY CHRISTMAS! He is doing better. Wanted to clarify what…" (Tweet). Retrieved 21 May 2019 – via Twitter.
  26. ^ Magary, Drew. "An Incomplete List Of Things I Can Never Do Again". Deadspin. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  27. ^ Magary, Drew. "The Night The Lights Went Out". The Concourse. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  28. ^ Booker, Brakkton (November 2019). "After Days of Resignations, the Last of the Deadspin Staff Has Quit". NPR.
  29. ^ "Drew Magary". Gen. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  30. ^ Magary, Drew (17 September 2020). "Writing About Politics Sucks". Gen. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  31. ^ "Drew Magary — Columnist". SF Gate. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  32. ^ Scott, Nate (28 July 2020). "Everything we know about Defector, a new sports blog from former staffers of Deadspin". For The Win. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
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