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High-Octane Hopes: On Lou Mathews’s “L.A. Breakdown”
Nancy Spiller reviews a new reprint of Lou Mathews’s classic novel “L.A. Breakdown.”...
Nancy Spiller is the Los Angeles–based author of Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (with recipes) (Counterpoint, 2009) and Compromise Cake: Lessons Learned From My Mother’s Recipe Box (Counterpoint, 2013). She is also an artist, recovering journalist, and instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. For more information please visit www.nancyspiller.org. Twitter handle: @nancyspiller.