About Tom Lutz Books
Tom Lutz is the award-winning author of Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums and over a dozen other books, including fiction, travel narrative, and cultural history. His work has been translated into 12 languages and featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, and many more. Lutz is the founding editor of The Los Angeles Review of Books, producing numerous literary pieces, books, films, and podcasts. A former Distinguished Professor and Chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside, he splits his time between Los Angeles and southern France.