Slow Players

Pop Culture, Fiction, Music, Art, and Journal

A newsletter about Los Angeles and everyone else

All kinds of writing from Carson Mell and the occasional contributor.

Books & book-adjacent topics, taking the long view, the writing life, and related resources. Posts every 5-6 days.

Trusted by 70K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, and publish articles by world-class authors on prose style and AI writing. Plus the satire The Demon Inside David Lynch.

One third Books, one third Observations, one third Who Knows.

Literature, history and politics with a dash of Hitchens, a sprinkle of Vidal and a whole lot of rubble.

literary encounters, local indignities

I write gift guides for people who read books. I link to all sorts of things.

Notes on brand, culture, and strategy from [nemesis.global]

"I give of myself unto thee." -Ottessa Moshfegh

Book news, excerpts, and new writing from Jess Row

the movement of perception