PODCAST #26: Matthew Specktor, "American Dream Machine"
By Colin MarshallApril 18, 2013
Matthew Specktor is the Senior Fiction Editor at Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of three books.
Here, he discusses his latest, American Dream Machine, with LARB host Colin Marshall.
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Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall hosts the Korean-language podcast 콜린의 한국 (Colin's Korea) and is at work on a book called The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles. You can follow him at his website, on Twitter @colinmarshall, or on Facebook.
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