Thomas Larson
Thomas Larson is the author of The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative. He lectures and holds workshops on memoir writing throughout the United States. Larson writes personal essays, memoir, book reviews, and literary and music criticism for many publications, among them Gettysburg Review, Antioch Review, New Letters, Fourth Genre, and Free Inquiry. He regularly contributes book reviews for Contrary Magazine online. In the 1980s, he was the music critic for the Santa Fe New Mexican. After getting an undergraduate degree in music composition, he moved to San Diego in 1982 and earned a master's in American literature from UCSD. During the 1990s, he was a professor of English at San Diego City College. Since 1999, he has been a contributing writer for the Reader, where he specializes in feature journalism, narrative nonfiction, and profiles. His twin sons are Jeremy, a graphic designer, who lives in San Diego, and Blake, a poet and photographer, who resides in Oakland. Larson lives in Clairemont with his partner Suzanna. His website is thomaslarson.com.
Recent Stories
Intimate Murder
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
In each of the last three years, there were roughly 17,000 murders in the United States. Of these, about 11 ...
How UCSD Spent Over $500,000 on a Home Remodel That Never Happened
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Perhaps the most prized piece of real estate throughout the University of California, San Diego, is the seven-acre site of ...
San Diego's Highest Paid Executives
Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007
San Diego is home to 35 rich executives, almost all white men, who receive millions in compensation for running our ...
Of Course You Qualify!
Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007
Mario is a recent immigrant from Mexico, and he's typical of homeowners facing foreclosure. He doesn't want me to use ...
She Hated Adverbs
Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007
My long conversation with Judith Moore about writing began in 1980. We first met at a monthly campus ministry shindig ...
What's That Smell?
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Andrea Kane is new to San Diego: the Navy has stationed her husband here, and they've landed in Imperial Beach. ...
The Well-Traveled Tomato
Thursday, March 8, 2007
On a hot day in late November, I'm all set to enter Vons: my role for the day -- food ...
No Bad Jobs, Just Bad Attitudes
Thursday, Dec. 28, 2006
If you've walked the concourse at Lindbergh Field, on the way to baggage claim you may have noticed the wall-mounted ...
Dig A Little Deeper
Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006
In September 2003, Brian Burritt rode the elevator down to the basement of the San Diego Police Department where the ...
The Guest is Like God
Thursday, June 29, 2006
One Sunday in November 1989, Barry Lall, an Indian-American doctor, was driving over the Coronado Bridge with his wife Hema, ...