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Drew Magary

Drew Magary is a columnist for Defector and SFGate. His new memoir, The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage, is available now.
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How to Be an Incredible Coach, According to 10 Incredible Coaches

The answer to the boy crisis, the loneliness epidemic, and having way more fun might come from mentoring and supporting kids. Oh, you don’t know how to do that? Allow Snoop Dogg, plus other phenomenal leaders, to coach you up.

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The Weight-Loss Drug Revolution Won’t Save Us

Our relationship with food, and with ourselves, is broken. Can a new class of anti-obesity drugs repair it, or are we thinking about weight loss all wrong?

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Being a WFH Dad Proves You're a Real Man

"It’s what fatherhood ought to be," says writer Drew Magary, about working from home and parenting at the same time.

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Can You Eat Your Way Younger?

Many (so, so many!) bold new “superfoods” emphatically promise to enhance and extend your life. Here’s one man’s quest to eat (nearly!) everything and separate health from hype.

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Losing My Hearing Made Me Love Music Even More

Hearing loss has become a quiet, soul-crushing epidemic affecting millions of Americans. But as one man discovered, your body is always fighting for new ways to be heard.

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The Dizzying Complexity of My Life With Vertigo

"I didn’t know vertigo was coming for me, though I didn’t know any of this was coming for me prior to my accident."

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An Accident Nearly Killed Me. Then Therapy Saved My Life.

“I wasn’t important. I was an asshole.” It's just one of the lessons in this exclusive excerpt from the Defector columnist's new memoir, The Night the Lights Went Out.

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