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Interview with Tom Lutz author of Born Slippy: A Novel

Tom Lutz, author of Born Slippy: a novel About the author

Tom Lutz is a writer of books, articles, and screenplays, the founder of the Los Angeles Review of Books, and is now Distinguished Professor at UC Riverside. His books include American Book Award winner Doing Nothing, New York Times notable books Crying and American Nervousness, 1903, the travel books And the Monkey Learned Nothing a…

TOM LUTZ & MARC NIESON

October 8, 2016 - 4:00pm Prairie Lights

Laurie Winer: Nabokov says that when he started to write his autobiography that he remembered things that he had forgotten, that the doors opened. Did you find that when you wrote I Can Give You Anything But Love?

Gary Indiana: Yes, I mean things that I had completely forgotten about came back. And things that I remembered very clearly started to present themselves in a different aspect. You remember it that way but can that possibly be the way it happened? It’s tricky, memory is very tricky. I love how Nabakov killed off his mother in that memoir. Just in a parenthesis: “(picnic, lightning).”

Tom Lutz: [laughter] the greatest parenthesis ever, I think we can all agree.

GI: I hate talking about myself, I hate writing about myself, it’s embarrassing, it’s weird. But I did want to figure out, to the extent that I could, why are you wired the weird way that you are? Why am I this mess? This particular mess, I don’t mind being a mess but why am I this particular mess? How did I manage to get into this condition as a human being?

- from the Los Angeles Review of Books radio show, Radio Hour, first broadcast on October 15, 2015. 

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