Two weeks ago marked the launch of the Los Angeles Review of Books, an online cultural magazine founded on the belief that literary criticism can flourish on the Internet. “Contrary to the notion that the literary arts are dying off, we believe a reading renaissance is underway in America,” says the founding editor Tom Lutz, the chair of the Creative Writing program at the University of California, Riverside. “While the debate goes on about the public’s commitment to reading and newspapers continue to close down their review sections, book clubs are flourishing, blogs and literary social networking sites are proliferating, and eReaders and apps make reading available in new ways and to a new generation.” The magazine features essays, book reviews, and interviews—and its first contributors include Geoff Nicholson (on Buster Keaton), and Jane Smiley (on Nancy Mitford). The site will relaunch later this year with reader-discussion forums, videos, and a reference database.

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