Contributor

Matthew Specktor

is the author, most recently, of The Golden Hour, and is founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. His office window overlooks the Schindler House, which Esther McCoy once praised for the “size and beautiful disposition of the space” in its rooms.

Articles

McCoy takes shots at MGM Studios, Mel Brooks, and the director Herbert Ross—La Mesa property owners all—but reserves the bulk of her disgust for Roger Corman.