Slow Learners Podcast

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Slow Learners Podcast

@slowlearnerspod

A read-a-long podcast about big books. Hosted by Asher (@asherdark1) and John (@johnsemley3000) . Find Season Two: VINELAND...wherever you find pods.

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·24 Haz

We have created a BookShop affiliate store. Why? Well, it's a good place to index all the books we talk about on the show. And if you buy them using our affiliate links, we get a modest taste to keep our immortal lightbulbs burning. Check it out! bookshop.org/shop/slowlearn…

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·16 Mar

PYNCHON ALERT #Oscars

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·9 Mar

@GholsonLyon Thank you!

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Gholson Lyon@GholsonLyon·5 Mar

@slowlearnerspod loving your episodes on Gravity's Rainbow, which I am now about half-way through my first read. I obsessed over Vineland, plus V and Crying of Lot 49 (and Shadow Ticket), before tackling GR. Have not read Infinite Jest. Great podcast!

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·13 Şub

We may pivot of TP and cover INFINITE JEST next, if only because it's in the Geist. Also, re-reading it for the first time in 20 years, there's so much good stuff. And also a lot of incredibly annoying stuff! Much to ponder...

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·5 Mar

Dalkey Archive Press@Dalkey_Archive

THE TUNNEL is coming! William H. Gass’s masterpiece will be available as a Dalkey Archive Essential this April. Pre-order today and add THE TUNNEL READER (new and archival critical essays to guide your way through the labyrinth), and the 40+ hour audiobook read by Gass himself.

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·25 Şub

"We have Trent Kite, with have Tiny Ewell, we have LaMont Chu, we have Rodney 'Rod the God' Tine, we have Dr. Wo, we have M. Broullîme, we have Susan T. Cheese, we have the Ottowan Paparazzo, we have Guglielmo Redondo, we have all these characters..."

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Gholson Lyon@GholsonLyon·25 Şub

I bought the book by Cowart, which is insightful thus far. Found my way to him via this podcast and other channels. Good to read that Cowart considers Pynchon to be the best historical novelist of all time.

Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod

This week: we close out the first section of GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, and talk to professor and Pynchon scholar David Cowart about the novel's relationship to the unruly canon of postmodern literature. BUCKLE UP LIL PARDS! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-s…

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·18 Şub

“We have Hugh ‘Helen’ Steeply, we have Po’ Tony Krause, we have Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner, we have the Near Eastern Medical Attaché, we have Lateral Alice Moore, we have all these characters…”

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·14 Şub

@petebiblio Not according to him!

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Pete Stevens@petebiblio·14 Şub

@slowlearnerspod He also said he wanted IJ to be entertaining. It’s there on the page and obvious: he was trying to be funny.

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·14 Şub

I (John) is about halfway through an INFINITE JEST re-read, and immersed if Foster-Wallacia. EASILY the most annoying thing about the guy is his refusal to admit his book is funny. So frustrating. The book is literally set in "Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment"! That's funny!

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·14 Şub

@petebiblio any number of interviews where he bristles at it being described as funny, as if that pedicures the tragedy. Charlie Rose, that one German interview, etc.

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Pete Stevens@petebiblio·14 Şub

@slowlearnerspod When did he say he didn’t want it to be funny? He wanted it to be entertaining.

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·14 Şub

@Therewillbbooks @petebiblio annoying!

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Therewillbbooks@Therewillbbooks·14 Şub

@petebiblio @slowlearnerspod Charlie Rose interview

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·14 Şub

Anyway may he rest in peace. Much to discuss &c.

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·14 Şub

There's such a reflexive embarrassment in refusing to admit he's trying to be funny. "I thought it was actually quite sad..." No shit. Garbage trucks being catapulted into a radioactive "concavity" IS sad. It's also hilarious.

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·13 Şub

Mostly, we think it would be a fun excuse to cover stuff like: -avant- and "apres-" garde filmmaking -Quebecois and other Canadian separatist movements -smoking too much weed -the Arizona Cardinals special teams squad -whatever a "Sierpiński gasket" is -ONANism, gooning, etc.

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·30 Oca

John wrote about INFINITE JEST, and the guy who called your beloved Slow Learners hosts "litbros."

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Slow Learners Podcast@slowlearnerspod·12 Oca

We were robbed in the best podcast category at the Golden Globes. And that’s fine. Winning an award for podcasting is debased. All podcasters should be jailed or thrown in a ditch.

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