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Tom Lutz

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Fiction, Travel, History

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December 2007

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I have just published the third volume of my travel writing, THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS ()October 2021). A volume of photographic portraits of people I've met on the road is coming out in February 2022, PORTRAITS: MOMENTS OF INTIMACY ON THE ROAD.

A book of philosophical and literary critical reflections, AIMLESSNESS, was published in January 2021 by Columbia University Press.

My first novel, BORN SLIPPY: A NOVEL was published in January, 2020 (Repeater/PRH).

I've just sent a sequel, STILL SLIPPY, to my agent.

I am the author of two earlier books of travel narrative — And The Monkey Learned Nothing and Drinking Mare’s Milk on the Roof of the World — the cultural histories Doing Nothing and Crying; literary histories Cosmopolitan Vistas and Americ ...more

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	Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America 3.42 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears 3.61 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Born Slippy by Tom Lutz (Goodreads Author), Alan Jacobs (Editor) 3.85 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life in Transit 3.70 avg rating — 66 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World: Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar 4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aimlessness 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kindness of Strangers 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	These Colored United States: African American Essays from the 1920s by Tom Lutz (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tom Lutz (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Born Slippy

My new novel is coming out from Repeater Books/Penguin Random House in January 2020.

People have been saying nice things about it:

“A whip-smart, whirlwind novel of noir and adventure, humor and horror, cynicism and romance. Lutz’s sterling prose and love of literature light up this unique page-turner about the friendship between a man who would be good and the amoral, magnetic narcissist who comes Read more of this blog post »

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