Gary Lutz

Gary Lutz is an American writer of both poetry and fiction. His work has appeared in "The Quarterly", "Conjunctions", "Unsaid", "Fence", "StoryQuarterly", "The Believer", "Cimarron Review", "3rd Bed", "Noon", "Slate Magazine", "New York Tyrant", "The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories", "The Apocalypse Reader" (Thunder's Mouth Press), "PP/FF: An Anthology" (Starcherone Books), and "The Random House Treasury of Light Verse".

Gary Lutz's stories bend perception by twisting sentences (and people) and thus their apparent implication.

A collection of his short fiction, "Stories in the Worst Way", was published by Alfred A. Knopf in November 1996, and re-published by 3rd Bed in 2002. Lutz's second collection of short stories, "I Looked Alive", was published by the now defunct Four Walls Eight Windows in 2003. "Partial List of People to Bleach", a chapbook of both new and rare early stories (published under a pseudonym in Gordon Lish's "The Quarterly") was released by Future Tense Books in 2007.

Gary Lutz is currently a professor of English and composition at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.

Works

*"Partial List of People to Bleach" (2007 from Future Tense Books)
*"Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference", with Diane Stevenson (2005 from Writer's Digest Books)
*"I Looked Alive" (2003 from Thunder's Mouth Press)
*"Stories In the Worst Way" (1996 from Alfred A Knopf; 2002 from 3rd Bed)

Online texts

Short Fiction:
* [http://www.postroadmag.com/Issue_1/Fiction/lutz.html "Eminence"]
* [http://www.webdelsol.com/lutz/gary2.htm "For Food"]
* [http://www.webdelsol.com/lutz/lutz-c.htm "Contractions"]
* [http://www.webdelsol.com/lutz/lutz-d.htm "Devotions"]
* [http://www.webdelsol.com/lutz/lutz-ede.htm "Esprit de L'Elevator"]
* [http://www.webdelsol.com/lutz/lutz-sm.htm "Street Map of the Continent"]
* [http://www.webdelsol.com/lutz/lutz-smt.htm "SMTWTFS"]
* [http://www.unsaidmagazine.com/magazine/issue1/lutz.html "I Crawl Back to People"]

Review:
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2086628 "Fatal Agreement: The new edition of The Chicago Manual of Style wrestles with grammar."]

Interviews

* [http://www.bookslut.com/features/2006_07_009366.php with Bookslut]
* [http://www.believermag.com/issues/200602/?read=interview_lutz with Believer Magazine]
* [http://www.5cense.com/Lutz.htm with author, visual artist and publisher Derek White, via 5cense]