What is The Long Goodbye?

A new essay or short story every Friday.

Topics include: shame, creativity, emotions, midlife, masculinity, parenting, tech and the general strangeness of being a person in 2026.

The goal is that we both leave here appreciating life a little more.

Who writes it?

Recovering Author, Adam Fletcher. British, Berliner by choice, father of a small and opinionated daughter. I’ve sold 400,000 books across two languages, been published by the New York Times and the Guardian, and have fortnightly-ish, quasi-column about modern fatherhood in Die Zeit (in German).

I am also, somehow, increasingly, bald. Perhaps also bold.

Thank you for being here. I’ll make it worth your time.