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 <strong><a href="http://blog.colinmarshall.org/">his website</a></strong>, on Twitter <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/colinmarshall">@colinmarshall</a></strong>, or on <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/colinmarshallessayist">Facebook</a></strong>.

Colin Marshall

<h5>Matthew Specktor is the&nbsp; Senior Fiction Editor at <em>Los Angeles Review of Books.&nbsp;</em>He is the author of three books.</h5><br />
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<h5><em></em>Here, he discusses his latest, <em>American Dream Machine</em>, with <em>LARB </em>host Colin Marshall.<br /><br /></h5><br />
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PODCAST #26: Matthew Specktor, "American Dream Machine"

PODCAST #26: Matthew Specktor, \"American Dream Machine\"

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<h4><strong>Richard Rayner </strong>is the author of nine books, both fiction and non-fiction, most recently <em>A Bright and Guilty Place</em>, a history of certain true crimes in L.A. in the late 1920s and 1930s. He has published in <em>The New Yorker</em>, <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>Esquire</em>, <em>The Guardian</em>, <em>The Los Angeles Times</em>, and <em>The Washington Post</em>. He writes a regular column for <em>The Los Angeles Review of Books&nbsp;</em>and teaches in the Masters of Professional Writing Program at USC.</h4>
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Richard Rayner

Fabulous Monsters: Matthew Specktor’s “American Dream Machine”

<h4>The Questionnaire is, as her name suggests, a multifarious and mysterious interlocutor. Chameleon-like, her questions change their color as they approach each new interviewee.</h4>

The Questionnaire

The Questionnaire: Matthew Specktor

<h4><strong>Andy Zax</strong> is a music producer, writer and former co-star of Comedy Central's <em>Beat The Geeks</em>. In addition to the Grammy-nominated <em>Woodstock: 40 Years On</em> anthology, he has produced boxed sets and reissues for such artists as Talking Heads, Television, Chic, Rod Stewart, Judee Sill, John Cale, Nico, Lee Hazlewood, David Axelrod and Charles Wright. He can be found on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/andyzax" target="_blank">@andyzax</a>.</h4>

Andy Zax

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<strong>Matthew Specktor is the author of the novels <em>American Dream Machine</em> and <em>That Summertime Sound</em>, as well as a nonfiction book of film criticism. His writing has appeared in <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>Harper’s</em>, the <em>Paris Review</em>, <em>Tin House</em>, and many other periodicals and anthologies. He has recently been at work adapting <em>American Dream Machine</em> for FX Networks. Photo by Lisa Jane Persky.</strong>

Matthew Specktor

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"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes

PODCAST #26: Matthew Specktor, "American Dream Machine"

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.