Matthew Specktor (born 1966) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Specktor’s first novel, That Summertime Sound, was published in 2009. A nonfiction book of film criticism, about the motion picture The Sting, was published in 2011. Specktor’s second novel, American Dream Machine, was published in 2013. The book was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and was optioned by Showtime Networks. Specktor’s short fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, GQ UK, The Paris Review, among other publications. He is a former senior fiction editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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