Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California

A Best Book of the Year at The Atlantic

Los Angeles Times Bestseller
[An] absorbing and revealing book. . . . nestling in the fruitful terrain between memoir and criticism. --Geoff Dyer, author of Out of Sheer Rage
Blending memoir and cultural criticism, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment.

About the author

Matthew Specktor is the author of the novels American Dream Machine and That Summertime Sound; a nonfiction book, The Sting; and the forthcoming memoir The Golden Hour (Ecco/HarperCollins). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Believer, Tin House, Vogue, GQ, Black Clock, and Open City. He has been a MacDowell fellow, and is a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He resides in Los Angeles. www.matthewspecktor.com

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Specktor
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781951142629
• ISBN: 978-1-951142-62-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 214 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet