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Slow Learners

Ian Scuffling
Vineland
Thomas Pynchon
Hippie Movement
Grateful Dead
Northern California
1980s America
Fascism
Informants
Neoliberalism
Cultural Criticism
Zoid Wheeler
Witness Protection
Cucumber Lounge
Frenesi Gates

A podcast about big books. Season One is devoted to a reading an analysis of Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel "Gravity's Rainbow," and other issues directly related to the text.

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And we're back! With VINELAND, chapters 6-8.

John and Asher discuss inter-generational negation, luddites, the computerized future, communitarian happenings, Esalen, transpersonal psychology, holotropic breathwork, and '70s solipsism.

THEN: We spea... more

We begin our read-through of Thomas Pynchon's Vineland in earnest, covering Chapters 1-5.

John and Asher discuss the amateurishness of opening a novel with a character waking up, the perils of transfenestration, the ersatzness of Hawaiian holidays, ... more

We missed "Pynchon Summer." But just barely! Cut us some slack, eh?

In any event, we are back with our read-through of Thomas Pynchon's Vineland (1990). Is it a triumphant return following the interminable 17 interregnum since Gravity's Rainbow? Or ... more

We open the ol' mailbag, which is really more of google voicemail inbox, to answer some listener Q&As. At long last!

We accidentally deleted one and apologize. So if you're the person who called in to ask about the "keying waves" sequence, where Slo... more

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Recent Guests

Jesse Jarnow
Writer, podcaster, and broadcaster; author of Heads, A Biography of Psychedelic America.
WFMU, The Deadcast
Episode: VINELAND EP 2: What Was The Hippie? (w/Jesse Jarnow)
Noah Kulwin
Co-host and co-producer of Blowback Podcast
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Episode: VINELAND EP 1: Snitches Get Stitches (w/ Noah Kulwin)

Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars from 98 ratings
  • The best Pynchon podcast

    I’ve listened to exploring the zone and slow learners is better. The guest are more educated and the hosts are more erudite.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Josephkambourakis
    United States18 days ago
  • Great content, awful audio

    First-time reader of GR and I love the content and banter of this podcast as a supplement to the text. Great show! But… the audio quality, especially the volume swings, is horribly distracting. It goes from quiet to obnoxiously loud and back. I thought it would improve after the first episodes, but alas…

    Also the opening line to the book is misquoted in every intro with an extraneous “the.”

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    jared55104
    United States3 months ago
  • Rocket Enthuiasm

    Interesting insights in digestible format

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    mmmmmaaaaaaaxxxxxxxxx
    United States2 years ago
  • Very insightful.

    Great show! And I’d know.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Andrew Sarris Baby!!!!
    United States2 years ago
  • Great pod

    Love the book discussion paired with some sort of expert to discuss a topic of the book. I don’t love having one speaker in the left channel and another in the right channel during parts.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    satyagraaha
    Canada2 years ago

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#44
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#80
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Talking Points

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VINELAND EP 2: What Was The Hippie? (w/Jesse Jarnow)
Q: In what respect is Vineland, for lack of a better word, a hippie novel?
He's certainly a chronicler of hippie America or heady America.
VINELAND EP 2: What Was The Hippie? (w/Jesse Jarnow)
Q: Do you think Zoid Wheeler and Vineland does kind of fit that stereotypical idea of the hippie?
Yeah, I mean, I think that's extremely intentional.
VINELAND EP 2: What Was The Hippie? (w/Jesse Jarnow)
Q: Could you help us in the listeners through what is or what was the hippie?
People who were sort of opting out of society at large, I think, is my general working definition.
VINELAND EP 1: Snitches Get Stitches (w/ Noah Kulwin)
Q: Can you tell me what about Vineland specifically clicks with you?
Noah reflects that he connected with Vineland during a time when he was intrigued by the 1980s, highlighting its themes on neoliberalism and the complexities of media consumption.

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