In this episode, I talk with author and novelist Matthew Specktor about his recent hybrid memoir and cultural exploration, Always Crashing in the Same Car. We discuss his fascination with figures who faced creative crises in Hollywood, explore the realities of growing up in LA, and talk about the death of the middle-class creative in Hollywood.
It does feel like we saw them all together, and kind of lived them all together? Watching Woman Under the Influence now I can’t help but get a jolt of Xan’s perfume hanging in the air outside the Brontë Room
Wonderfully smashed. Quasi adjacent experiences all those years back; not really? Amazing stuff. Keep ‘em coming
It does feel like we saw them all together, and kind of lived them all together? Watching Woman Under the Influence now I can’t help but get a jolt of Xan’s perfume hanging in the air outside the Brontë Room
Powerfully indelible!
Always Crashing is an outstanding book!
Infinitely gratifying to hear this from you of all people, Sherman. Again, you've made my day (er, week, etc)
Sherman -- I loved it as well. Thanks for dropping by.