![]() Things I know other people aren't going to get at." He has said that he profiles men "who are not quite in control of their own appetites, who live a little bit larger, so we don't have to." I like to find little undiscovered pockets or subjects or interesting people and just ride them into the ground. He wrote two general types of pieces for the Weekly Standard – pieces for the magazine's website that "are a lot riff-ier, and pop-culture-y and you can polish it off in a day or two," and pieces for the print magazine that require him to "go see the world and find an interesting nook and cranny. His first article for the magazine appeared in its issue of September 18, 1995. Labash wrote for the Weekly Standard since its founding in 1995. He has said that his first job was at "a pool snack bar at the Andrews AFB Officer's Club." īefore joining The Weekly Standard in 1995, Labash worked for the Albuquerque Monthly, Washingtonian magazine, and The American Spectator. Labash describes the newsletter as being "about life and politics and culture and fly fishing and God and whatever else comes, not necessarily in that order." Early career In October, 2021, Labash launched a Substack newsletter called " Slack Tide." The newsletter, which comes out once to twice a week, requires a subscription, though some posts are free to the public. He studied journalism at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, graduating in 1993. He attended Mount Olive Lutheran School in San Antonio from 1974 to 1979 Hahn Elementary School on Hahn Air Force Base from 1979 to 1980 and Gateway Christian High School in San Antonio from 1982 to 1986. He has described himself as a "military brat." Air Force, and Labash lived some of his childhood years in Germany. In 2010, Simon & Schuster published a collection of his pieces entitled Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: and Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys. Many of his pieces are profiles, often of crooked and disgraced politicians others are accounts of offbeat conferences or portraits of cities on the skids, such as Detroit and New Orleans. Labash specializes in long-form, humorous reportage. ![]() Labash has contributed to Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Salon, Slate, Washingtonian, The New Republic, The Drake (A fly fishing magazine), and Nerve Magazine. He was a senior writer, and later a national correspondent at The Weekly Standard, where his articles frequently appeared. Matthew John "Matt" Labash (born 1970 or 1971) is an American author and journalist who writes the Slack Tide newsletter. ![]()
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