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The Slowdown

Candid, revealing long-form conversations with extraordinary people about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey interviews each guest about how they think about time—and how pivotal moments have shaped who they are today.

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  • S12 · E138
    Oct 8, 2025 · 1 hr

    Olivia Laing on the Pleasures and Possibilities of Gardens

    The British writer and cultural critic Olivia Laing, author of the “The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise” and the forthcoming novel “The Silver Book,” discusses the symbiotic relationship between gardening and writing; the act of rebelling against a reactive, adrenaline-fueled culture by prioritizing and embracing slowness, in-person conversation, and what they call the “temporal self”; and the importance of imagining, in vivid detail, the kinds of utopias we could one day ver

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