Tom Lutz

Tom Lutz is the author of, among other books, And the Monkey Learned Nothing, Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World, and Crying, which have been translated into a dozen languages, and several of which have been named New York Times Notable Books. His Doing Nothing won the American Book Award. He is the founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Born Slippy is his first novel.

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Born Slippy

An excerpt of the novel by Tom Lutz January 16, 2020

Much later, after everything that happened, Frank no longer found much pleasure in the Great Books—he suspected they mocked him, that they, in a way, had written his own downfall, his own eventual exile.