Matthew Specktor
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Matthew Specktor is the author of the novels American Dream Machine and That Summertime Sound, as well as a nonfiction book about the motion picture The Sting. His writing has appeared or in the Paris Review, the Believer, Tin House, Black Clock, and salon.com, among other publications. He is a senior editor and founding member of the Los Angeles Review of Books.