Matthew Specktor is the author of the novel “That Summertime Sound.”
Jonathan Lethem said that it “isn’t so much a book as it is a door, hinged in memory, and swinging wide to every tenderhearted throb of lust and longing and precocious regret still there where you left it, at the periphery of adulthood.” The Los Angeles Times raved that the book “has a crisp, evocative style that captures both the nuances of a particular time and the universal themes of any insightful coming-of-age story.”
His writing has appeared in Open City, Salon and many anthologies. His screen adaptation of Shirley Hazzard’s novel “The Transit of Venus” was optioned by Warner Independent Pictures.
He received his BA from Hampshire College, and his MFA from Warren Wilson. He has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow. He worked for many years in film development, running New York offices for Jersey Films and Fox 2000.
Visit him online at www.thatsummertimesound.com.
