The Epicenter: Matthew Specktor & Glen David Gold April 16, 2013

Celebrating the launch of "American Dream Machine," the new novel from Matthew Specktor, writer and Senior Fiction Editor for the "Los Angeles Review of Books." Specktor will be in conversation with author Glen David Gold. Book sales and signing to follow.

"This is the novel about Los Angeles that I've been waiting for-a mythical LA full of longing and distances and illusion. Specktor has captured the LA I know, the one all around me and the one in my head, a city of invention and grit, surface and underbelly. Funny, poignant, and gorgeously written."
-Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Sorry Please Thank You

Matthew Specktor is Senior Fiction Editor at the "Los Angeles Review of Books." He is the author of three books, the most recent of which, "American Dream Machine," is published by Tin House Books.

Glen David Gold is the author of two novels, "Carter Beats the Devil" and "Sunnyside." His essays, memoirs and short fiction have appeared in "McSweeney's," "The New York Times Magazine," and London's "Independent."

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