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	Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz, Matthew Specktor (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.09 avg rating — 26,912 ratings — published 1977 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 424 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Dream Machine 3.49 avg rating — 463 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood 3.81 avg rating — 277 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes inside the Gold Mine by David Kukoff (Editor), Jeremy Rosenberg (Contributor), John Densmore (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 132 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Summertime Sound 3.62 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sting: A Novel Approach to Cinema by Matthew Specktor (Goodreads Author), Sean Howe (Editor) 3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	California Prose Directory 2016 by Sarah LaBrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Summer Block (Goodreads Author) (Contributor ), Adam Klein (Contributor) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Los Angeles Review of Books Issue 5 by Los Angeles Review of Books, Matthew Specktor (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Janet Fitch (Goodreads Author) 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Los Angeles Review of Books Issue 2 by Los Angeles Review of Books, Ben Lerner, Chris Kraus did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Life itself is chaos, the artist’s life is often one that tends to give that chaos its full extension.”
― Matthew Specktor, Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California

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“This is the trouble with those who show you how to live, unfortunately. They don’t necessarily know how to do it themselves.”
― Matthew Specktor, Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California

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“Writers are vacillators, living and dying—and, y’know, both, often enough, at the same time—on the strength of their capacity for indecision.”
― Matthew Specktor, Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California

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