Tom Lutz

Tom Lutz is the founder and editor in chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value, Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears, and American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History. He teaches at the University of California, Riverside, and lives in Los Angeles, California.