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THOMAS LARSON

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.
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Leo Tolstoy and the Origins of Spiritual Memoir

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"

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

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

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