Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California
Title | Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Specktor |
Publisher | Tin House Books |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2021-07-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1951142632 |
A Best Book of the Year at The Atlantic Los Angeles Times Bestseller "[An] absorbing and revealing book. . . . nestling in the fruitful terrain between memoir and criticism." —Geoff Dyer, author of Out of Sheer Rage Blending memoir and cultural criticism, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment. In 2006, Matthew Specktor moved into a crumbling Los Angeles apartment opposite the one in which F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the last moments of his life. Fitz had been Specktor’s first literary idol, someone whose own passage through Hollywood had, allegedly, broken him. Freshly divorced, professionally flailing, and reeling from his mother’s cancer diagnosis, Specktor was feeling unmoored. But rather than giving in or “cracking up,” he embarked on an obsessive journey to make sense of the mythologies of “success” and “failure” that haunt the artist’s life and the American imagination. Part memoir, part cultural history, part portrait of place, Always Crashing in the Same Car explores Hollywood through a certain kind of collapse. It’s a vibrant and intimate inspection of failure told through the lives of iconic, if under-sung, artists—Carole Eastman, Eleanor Perry, Warren Zevon, Tuesday Weld, and Hal Ashby, among others—and the author’s own family history. Through this constellation of Hollywood figures, he unearths a fascinating alternate history of the city that raised him and explores the ways in which curtailed ambition, insufficiency, and loss shape all our lives. At once deeply personal and broadly erudite, it is a story of an art form (the movies), a city (Los Angeles), and one person’s attempt to create meaning out of both. Above all, Specktor creates a moving search for optimism alongside the inevitability of failure and reveals the still-resonant power of art to help us navigate the beautiful ruins that await us all.
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Title | Always Crashing in the Same Car PDF eBook |
Author | Rocco Daniel DeBonis |
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Pages | 194 |
Release | 2005 |
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Always Crashing in the Same Car
Title | Always Crashing in the Same Car PDF eBook |
Author | Lance Olsen |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1573661996 |
A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie's last days An intricate collage-novel fusing and confusing fact and imagination, Always Crashing in the Same Car is a prismatic exploration of David Bowie through multiple voices and perspectives--the protean musician himself, an academic trying to compose a critical monograph about him, friends, lovers, musicologists, and others in Bowie's orbit. At its core beat questions about how we read others, how we are read by them, how (if at all) we can tell the past with something even close to accuracy, what it feels like being the opposite of young and still committed to bracing, volatile innovation. Set during Bowie's last months--those during which he worked on his acclaimed final album Black Star while battling liver cancer and the consequences of a sixth heart attack--yet washing back and forth across his exhilarating, kaleidoscopically costumed life, Always Crashing in the Same Car enacts a poetics of impermanence, of art, of love, of truth, even of death, that apparently most permanent of conditions.
Always crashing in the same car
Title | Always crashing in the same car PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Higgie |
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Release | 2003 |
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Always Crashing in the Same Car
Title | Always Crashing in the Same Car PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Wellaway |
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Pages | 17 |
Release | 2007 |
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Ashes to Ashes
Title | Ashes to Ashes PDF eBook |
Author | Chris O'Leary |
Publisher | Watkins Media Limited |
Pages | 650 |
Release | 2019-02-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1912248360 |
A comprehensive exploration of the final four decades of David Bowie’s musical career—covering every song he wrote, performed, or produced In Ashes to Ashes, the ultimate David Bowie expert offers a song-by-song retrospective of the legendary pop star's musical career from 1976 to 2016. Starting with Low, the first of Bowie's Berlin albums, and finishing with Blackstar—his final masterpiece released just days before his death in 2016—each song is annotated in depth and explored in essays that touch upon the song's creation, production, influences and impact.
Always Crashing the Same Car
Title | Always Crashing the Same Car PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick M. Holbrook |
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Pages | 26 |
Release | 2001 |
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