Matthew Specktor American Dream Machine

http://therumpus.net/2013/07/the-saturday-rumpus-interview-matthew-specktor/

Matthew Specktor is an unreadably lousy writer. Pedestrian? Ordinary? Worse! Style-less! Unreflexive. The opening pages suffice to prove my case, 

http://www.amazon.com/American-Dream-Machine-Matthew-Specktor/dp/1935639447

either you know about prose or your don't. This is just vulgar about vulgar people, naively so. Literature it is not. Not even realism.  

Specktor doesn't even exist, and David Shields, a nearly equally bad writer, is only scratching his back because Mathew scratches his at the L.A. Book Review.