<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This should be of interest to you all, as Reza suggests -- from Tom Lutz<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Reza Aslan <<a href="mailto:reza.aslan@ucr.edu">reza.aslan@ucr.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">December 27, 2009 7:44:39 PM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:robin.russin@ucr.edu">robin.russin@ucr.edu</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Fwd: Los Angeles Review of Books</b><br></span></div><br>We should send this to the crew.<br>Reza Aslan<br>Assistant Professor of Creative Writing<br>University of California, Riverside<br><br><br>Hello, friends,<br><br>I'm attaching a draft of a letter introducing the Los Angeles Review of Books and Culture (LARB), which I hope to launch on the web soon. I was hoping that you might help me by sending me some suggestions for reviewers or other interested parties(with their emails, if at all possible) and that you might also agree to use your names in publicity materials as supporters. <br><br>Eventually, of course, I hope you will also write for LARB and that we can make it a central part of the talk about writing and culture in the years to come.<br><br>All best for the holidays,<br><br>Tom<br></blockquote></div></body></html>