You have almost certainly read something Will Leitch has written in the last two decades because, frankly, he’s prolific.

Leitch is the founding editor of Deadspin (“the late Deadspin” as he now calls it) and is currently a contributor at many high-profile outlets while also being a film critic … and a podcaster … all while keeping up a weekly Substack newsletter, where you can find links to a lot of his other work.

Oh, yeah, and he’s also a novelist.

His latest work, “Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride,” came out today (Tuesday, May 20 if you are not reading this as soon as you receive it) and is tremendous as usual.

I highly suggest buying a copy. If you do, let me know! Maybe we could make it into a The Friscalating Dusklight book club selection.

I had a chance to talk with Will recently about his new book, the writing process and more. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

(Technical note, in the interest of full disclosure, which might only be of interest to me: There was a terrible reverb sound effect on all of my original audio from our recording, though thankfully it was just me and Will sounded fine. You can probably hear it in a couple of spots where we are talking back-and-forth. To enhance the listening experience, I re-recorded most of my questions).