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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…
Oct 21, 2025
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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.
Oct 12, 2025
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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.
Jul 27, 2025
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Matthew Specktor
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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.
Jul 11, 2025
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Slow Players #25: "Bull of the Woods" (Fiction)
It’s been a minute since I wrote fiction.
Jun 5, 2025
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Matthew Specktor
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THE GOLDEN HOUR is OUT TODAY
THE GOLDEN HOUR is out today.
Apr 22, 2025
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Matthew Specktor
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Slow Players #24: "What I'd Really Like to Do, of Course, is To Direct"
In the summer of 1982 I went to work in an office.
Apr 10, 2025
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Matthew Specktor
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The New Sentimentality: The Original "Vibe Shift" of 1964
There is a New Sentimentality, but nobody knows it exists.
Apr 3, 2025
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Matthew Specktor
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