Tom Lutz


Tom Lutz is an American writer and literary critic, and founder and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Early life

Lutz grew up in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. He graduated from Greenwich High School. He received his B.A. in English and journalism from University of Massachusetts, and a master's degree and Ph.D in from Stanford University.

Career

Lutz taught American literature, cultural studies, literary theory, and creative writing at the California Institute of the Arts, University of Iowa, Stanford University, and the University of Copenhagen. He is currently Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Creative Writing at University of California, Riverside.
He has published over 100 articles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Chicago Tribune, Die Zeit, ZYZZYVA, Exquisite Corpse, Salon.com, Black Clockand dozens of other magazines, newspapers, book collections, and literary and academic journals.
His books include Aimlessness, Born Slippy: A Novel, Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World: Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar, And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life of Travel, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value, Crying: The Natural & Cultural History of Tears, and American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History. They have been translated into 12 languages.
He is the founding editor and publisher of Los Angeles Review of Books. Los Angeles Review of Books launched in April 2011. He also founded The Larb Radio Hour and The LARB Quarterly Journal.
In 2016, he launched the , which seeks "to revolutionize the publishing industry from the ground up by increasing access, facilitating change, and inspiring invention through the recruitment, training, and mentorship of early-career talent from diverse backgrounds."
He lives in Los Angeles.

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