Slow Learners
BookmarkAsher Dark + John Semley
Slow Learners is a arts podcast hosted by Asher Dark + John Semley. It has 24 episodes, with the latest published December 2025.
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.
arts ·en ·24 episodes
VINELAND EP 6/7: Voicemails
VINELAND EP 6: Vineland The Good?
VINELAND EP 5: It's The Libidinal Economy, Stupid! (W/Subliminal Jihad)
VINELAND EP 4: Keeping it DL (w/Ana Gavrilovska)
VINELAND EP 3: Whether Underground (w/Eleanor Stein)
VINELAND EP 2: What Was The Hippie? (w/Jesse Jarnow)
VINELAND EP 1: Snitches Get Stitches (w/ Noah Kulwin)
Mailbag Time (Listener Qs, A'd)
APPENDIX - Is GRAVITY'S RAINBOW an autobiography? (W/ Albert Rolls)
EP 13 - The Final Delta T (W/Gregory Marks)
BONUS - Weissman's Tarot (W/ Answers In Tarot)
EP 12 - Raketen Stadt Of Mind (W/ Jeffrey Severs)
EP 11 - Shine On, You Crazy Sentient Lightbulb (W/ The Computerized Ghost of Harold Bloom)
EP 10 - Do You Believe In Magic? (W/ Matt Christman)
EP 9: The Banana Imperium (W/Noah Kulwin)
EP 8: Better Living Through Chemistry (W/Hamilton Morris)
EP 7: The Genocidal Gaze (W/Elizabeth Baer)
BONUS - Interview with Prüfstand VII director Robert Bramkamp
EP 6: Im(i)polex, Gee (W/Alex Ross Perry)
EP 5: Use Your Allusion (W/Prof. David Cowart)
EP 4: Systems, Scandals, and Literary Hoaxes (w/Alex Shephard)
EP 3: Military Mind Control (W/Stephen Kinzer)
EP 2: A Screaming Comes Across The Sky (W/Dr. Jordan Bimm)
EP 1: Who is Thomas Pynchon, And Why Are We Talking About His Book?
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