Character Q&A: Noah Spaeth of Lee Matthew Goldberg's SLOW DOWN

Character Interview Day! Today's guest is Noah Spaeth from inside the pages of SLOW DOWN by Lee Matthew Goldberg.  It is a pleasure to have him with us at The Literary Nook!

What is your name? Noah Spaeth

What do you look like? I’m 5’10, white, blue eyes, brown hair

Where are you today and what are you doing? In NYC, probably headed out to a bar

Describe the outside of your home. Central Park West

You come face to face with your worse enemy. How do you react? You mean, Dominick, I’d probably punch him in the face.

You keep a photo album of memories from your lifetime. If you could only keep one photo, which one would that be? I love a photo of me as a kid playing in snow, the look on my face is pure happiness

Are you a morning person or a night owl? Night owl

A police officer stops you for a minor violation. What violation is that and how do you react? Probably jaywalking.

What is your favorite piece of clothing? Sunglasses

Do you have any phobias? What are they and how intense are they? How have they impacted your life? I’m afraid of not being a success. 

Open your wallet, purse, or briefcase. What do you find? Credit cards, a little cash

You move into a new home. What's the first thing you buy for it? Bed

How do you feel about mortality? Not looking forward to it.

What scares you? Failure

How would your parents describe you? They are always traveling so they don’t know me well.

What’s the last thing you do before you go to bed at night? Brush teeth

Who is your best friend? Nevie. And I’m in love.

Who is your worse enemy? Dominick Bambach.

Are you faith-oriented? No

Are you married or in a relationship? Single

Do you have children? No

Where is your favorite hangout? The Penny down on the Lower East Side

You are at the zoo. What is your favorite animal? Snake

You just woke up to find that war has been declared. What’s the first thing you would do? Go back to sleep and hope it’s a nightmare.

When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? A writer and director.

If there was one thing you could change about yourself, what would that be? I’M PERFECT.

 

 

About the Book  

 

How far would you go to make your dreams come true? For budding writer and filmmaker Noah Spaeth, being a Production Assistant in director Dominick’s Bambach’s new avant-garde film isn’t enough. Neither is watching Dominick have an affair with the lead actress, the gorgeous but troubled Nevie Wyeth. For Noah’s dream is to get both the film and Nevie in the end, whatever the cost. And this obsession may soon become a reality once Dominick’s spurned wife Isadora reveals her femme fatale nature with a seductive plot to get rid of her husband for good.

Slow Down, a cross between the noir styling of James M. Cain and the dark satire of Bret Easton Ellis, is a thrilling page-turner that holds a mirror up to a media-saturated society that is constantly searching for the fastest way to get ahead, regardless of consequences.

Here’s what readers are saying about Slow Down!

“Slow Down is a frenetic first novel…full of unedifying characters scrambling for the elusive, perhaps imaginary, brass ring.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Lee Matthew Goldberg writes like a young Bret Easton Ellis doing a line of uncut Denis Johnson off the back of a public urinal. Memorable in the best possible way, also mostly illegal, Goldberg’s Slow Down is a mad man’s tour of Manhattan’s vices, follies, and ultimate betrayals.”
–Urban Waite, author of The Terror of Living and Sometimes the Wolf

“What would happen if one of Raymond Chandler’s 1940’s femme fatales were to join forces with one of Jay McInerney’s enfant terribles? Lee Matthew Goldberg wrings every delectable trope imaginable out of this mashup while still managing a fresh spin. A writer to watch out for.”
–David Kukoff, author of Children of the Canyon

“Slow Down starts fast and gets faster quick, gunning through yellow streetlights on its way to a full collision with your shattered soul. Lee Matthew Goldberg takes on the American Zeitgeist in this stunning debut.”
–Stephen Jay Schwartz, LA Times bestselling author of Boulevard and Beat

“Slow Down is a brilliant rush of a work charting the rise and fall of Noah and other pretentious losers. Savor this book.”
—Foreword Reviews

“Dark and hard-boiled writing that grabs you by the throat. Slow Down is one of those rare novels that’s so good you want it to go on forever!”
–Nick Pengelley, author of Ryder: An Ayesha Ryder Novel

“The plot takes off…there’s no denying it’s fun to watch rich snots destroy themselves.”
—Booklist

“Goldberg’s portrayal of the New York demimonde is one of the book’s strengths and brings to mind Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero. He also succeeds in marshalling a complicated plot.”
—CrimeFictionLover.com

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About the Author 

Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels THE DESIRE CARD, THE MENTOR, and SLOW DOWN. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar. The second book in the Desire Card series, PREY NO MORE, is forthcoming, along with his Alaskan Gold Rush novel THE ANCESTOR. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe, dedicated to publishing fiction that’s outside-of-the-box. His pilots and screenplays have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screencraft, and the Hollywood Screenplay contests. After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his writing has also appeared in the anthology DIRTY BOULEVARD, The Millions, Cagibi, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New Plains Review, Underwood Press, Monologging and others. He is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series and lives in New York City.

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