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Matthew Specktor

Matthew Specktor
Matthew Specktor is the author of the novels American Dream Machine and That Summertime Sound, and the nonfiction books The Sting and Always Crashing in the Same Car. 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.


Matthew Specktor Remembers His Mother as a Young Woman Struggling to Find Her Place in Los Angeles

“All of this suggests not a person who’s simply afraid to be late, but rather one who is running: who remains, always, in flight.”
April 24, 2025  By Matthew Specktor
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Inside the Career of Tuesday Weld, a Hollywood “Poet of Failure”

Matthew Specktor on the Woman Behind the Movie Star
July 28, 2021  By Matthew Specktor
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