Richard Lawson has left Gawker to cover culture and be amazing at Atlantic Wire.
If you don’t know who Richard Lawson is, you’re blowing it; he’s not just the funniest person who’s ever written for Gawker and the funniest culture columnist anywhere, period–his originality is truly inspiring, and he might have been the wittiest writer on the Internet for a bit there.
Read what some of his former colleagues have to say about him here.