6/5/2023 0 Comments Crying by Tom Lutz![]() ![]() Now attracting roughly 7 million page views a year (12 million including its blog and channels) and coming out in print quarterly, it is supported by donations. But in the meantime, he launched the Los Angeles Review of Books as a nonprofit intended to fill the void as large newspapers, including this one, pulled back on book coverage. He tooled it for a decade or so, shifting the voice and chronology. ![]() ![]() “Still in the back of my mind, the novel was always the goal,” he says. Notwithstanding his ambitions in fiction, he published only nonfiction - eclectic popular histories like “Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears” and “Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America,” for which he won the 2008 American Book Award. That position freed him up to write what he wanted. “I was always interested in the novel-writing process,” he said, “interested in how they talked about how their characters surprised them as they took form.”Īfter 10 years in L.A., Lutz took a position at UC Riverside, where he’s a professor in the creative writing department. His first book, “American Nervousness, 1903,” told the life stories of a dozen novelists, including Henry James and Edith Wharton. He started his academic life as a literary critic and cultural historian. ![]()
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