ALWAYS CRASHING IN THE SAME CAR

Blending memoir and cultural criticism, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment.In 2006, Matthew Specktor moved into a crumbling Los Angeles apartment opposite the one in which F. Scot t Fitzgerald spent the last moments of his life. Fitz had been Specktors first literary idol, someone whose own passage through Hol lywood had, allegedly, broken him. Freshly divorced, professionally flailing, and reeling from his mothers cancer diagnosis, Speckt or was fee...[Read more]