Out in Left
is a weekly newsletter about sports, politics, and American life without a car by Brendan Dentino. It started as a place for long-form essays about baseball through a sociopolitical lens. It has since evolved to include everything, because in America cars affect everything.
Topics include:
Sports - especially baseball and soccer/football
Politics - that’s the ‘left’ in Out in Left
Urbanism - ban cars
Music - primarily Oasis and Bruce Springsteen
Books - obviously
Travel - mainly to London
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Brendan Dentino
is a writer, Navy veteran, and political staffer. His writing can be found in San Diego Magazine, the upcoming Sunshine/Noir III, and various publications in the Substack-verse, including here at Out in Life and at Listen Up, his newsletter about Oasis. He’s from New Jersey and lives in San Diego.
