Slow Players
Matthew SpecktorBetter Late Than Ever
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Monthly |
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| Issues | 32 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 7 months ago |
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Slow Players #29: A Quick Pynch
I’d been thinking for a while about writing something about Pynchon and/or One Battle, but given the, uh, extreme saturation point we’re at with both topics, I’m likely to wait a good while longer. (The one I am looking forward to is a long...
Slow Players #28: A Stoned Divorcee in The Bath (Keaton, Skolimowski, Corman, Armani, Rice, etc)
I rarely know what to say when a famous person dies, and Diane Keaton—someone I never knew, but who was my mother’s favorite actress—is no exception. I’ve watched a ton of Keaton, though, and will never stop encouraging folks to watch Shoot...
Slow Players #27: "Buttons Like the Eyes of Fish" (Clune, Brodkey Revisited, Beha, etc)
I reviewed Michael Clune’s new novel, Pan, for the Washington Post. Spoiler: I did not dislike it.
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I’ve been thinking, still, about Harold Brodk...
Slow Players #26: "Seven Shades of Blue" (Brodkey, DeLillo, etc)
It’s not a very 21st Century mindset, I guess, but lately I’ve been thinking of how writers should be read but not heard. A rich sentiment, to be sure, coming from someone who’s been assiduously promoting a book these past few months—hey, h...
Slow Players #25: "Bull of the Woods" (Fiction)
It’s been a minute since I wrote fiction. I stopped, mostly, because I was feeling tired of it—tired of making things up, tired, for a while, of reading it—but also because shunting my work onto a nonfiction track was freeing to me. It put...
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