Matt Labash

Matthew John "Matt" Labash (born 1970 or 1971) is an American author and journalist who writes the Slack Tide newsletter. He was a senior writer, and later a national correspondent at ''The Weekly Standard'', where his articles frequently appeared. 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''.

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 Detroit and New Orleans. 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''. Provided by Wikipedia