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Matt Labash
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<p>Matthew John "Matt" Labash (born 1970 or 1971) is an American author and <a href="/facts/Journalist/LADe3dzs">journalist</a> who writes the Slack Tide newsletter. He was a senior writer, and later a national correspondent at <i><a href="/facts/The_Weekly_Standard/K8AQrs51">The Weekly Standard</a></i>, where his articles frequently appeared. Labash has contributed to <i>Esquire</i>, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>Salon</i>, <i>Slate</i>, <i>Washingtonian</i>, <i>The New Republic</i>, <i>The Drake</i> (a fly fishing magazine), and <i>Nerve Magazine</i>. </p><p>Labash specializes in long-form, humorous reportage. 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 <a href="/facts/Detroit/S84s4PGo">Detroit</a> and <a href="/facts/New_Orleans/IgCn61KH">New Orleans</a>. In 2010, <a href="/facts/Simon_%2526_Schuster/pESq8Dxl">Simon & Schuster</a> published a collection of his pieces entitled <i>Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: and Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys</i>. </p>