Matthew Specktor book signing at GR2
Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
GR2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
gr2.net
(310) 445-9276
Giant Robot is proud to host a book signing by Matthew Specktor at GR2. The Los Angeles writer received his BA from Hampshire College, and his MFA from Warren Wilson. He has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and his work has appeared in Open City, Salon, and various anthologies. That Summertime Sound is Specktor's first novel.
After his freshman year at college, the 19-year-old narrator of That Summertime Sound has two options: return home to Los Angeles to a city and a family that hardly notice him; or journey to the heart of America, Columbus, OH, for a summer of unexpected and life-defining experiences. Set against the Columbus music scene of the 1980s, Specktor's lead character treks to Ohio in search of his favorite band, Lords of Oblivion. He quickly adapts to life in Columbus, dressing in the local thrift store fashions, finding an on-again off-again girlfriend, going out, sleeping late, and above all, seeing live music. That Summertime Sound reads like a music encyclopedia with constant references to seminal bands like The Feelies, Husker Du, Pere Ubu, and Uriah Heep. Specktor's cinematic prose is so visual that the music and characters become a reality.
