Journalist, critic, and memoirist, Thomas Larson has been a staff writer for the San Diego Reader for fourteen years. His books include The Memoir and the Memoirist and The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings.” His next book, The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of My Heart Disease, is forthcoming this fall from Hudson Whitman Press. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program in creative nonfiction at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Leo Tolstoy and the Origins of Spiritual Memoir
Thomas Larson evaluates the spiritual and artistic innovation of “Confession” by Leo Tolstoy....
Lives Nurtured in Disadvantage: James Agee and Walker Evans's "Cotton Tenants"
Triptych image: Walker Evans, "Sharecropper's Family, Hale County, Alabama," 1935 IF THE CONTEMPORARY READER of nonfiction knows anything about the ...
Let Us Now Praise Free Men
IF YOU’RE ONE of the unorganized working poor who inhabit the grimmest parts of Delhi, India, you’re ...
