The Golden Hour

Matthew Specktor grew up as the son of Fred Specktor, a senior agent at CAA, which meant proximity to the business without any of its power. His memoir moves between his father’s career, his mother’s abandoned screenwriting ambitions, and his own attempts to work in an industry he had watched his whole life. It is a book about inheritance in a company town, and about what it costs to be raised inside a light that is always pointed somewhere else.