Incredibly grateful for this generous and thoughtful review from @davidulin.bsky.social and @altajournal.bsky.social
David Ulin@davidulin.bsky.social · 2d ago“She hadn’t realized until it was too late that there would be a last time for all of those things. She hadn’t known to mark them.” www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
“She hadn’t realized until it was too late that there would be a last time for all of those things. She hadn’t known to mark them.” www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Claire Boyles’s Colorado: Water Rights, Fracking, and the High Cost of Western Farming
In Appraisals, Claire Boyles goes back to the land.
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Hey so turns out discovering why we used to have all those food safety regulations in the first place is not all that much fun
6 writers, including @davidulin.bsky.social, reflect on the legacy of J.D. Salinger's THE CATCHER IN THE RYE as the iconic novel turns 75. Read the full piece in the @latimes.com here: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Is 'The Catcher in the Rye' phony or still cool? 6 writers reflect on its legacy at 75
We loved Holden Caulfield at 16, but how does the book hold up? Six California writers unpack the enduring power of Salinger’s only novel as it turns 75.
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Delighted to have three new poems in the summer issue of New World Writing Quarterly. newworldwriting.net/david-l-ulin...
David L. Ulin ~ Triptych - New World Writing Quarterly
#9 Dream I was in Manhattan, on the #9 train. At the station, a large crowd had been backed onto the platform due to a disturbance ahead. I noticed what
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According to the article, all she's been doing is TAPING articles onto the walls. TAPING. Not spraypainting, not carving, not damaging. Just TAPING. And they're calling that vandalism. This too is fascism.
Abraham Gutman@abgutman.bsky.social · 3w agoPark rangers fined Sandra Shachar for vandalism this morning at the President’s House, hours after the Trump admin installed its version of history. The 72 year old has been posting news articles on the site’s walls since the slavery exhibit was removed. If she does it again, she’ll be arrested.
Graham Platner shouldn't be a United States Senator -- and neither should Susan Collins -- and I really really hope there's a way for both of those things to be true.
The majority of GOP Supreme Court judges voting against birthright citizenship is a reminder that most conservatives fundamentally hate America.
In 1998, I moderated a conversation between Mel Brooks and Joseph Heller. They talked for three hours. Ostensibly, the subject was Heller's memoir, Now and Then. But really, it was the Mel and Joe show. Here's the piece that came out of their conversation. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
Banterweight Champs
Verbal Sparring Partners Mel Brooks, left, and Joseph Heller Engage in a Repartee That Covers Personal Struggles, 'Catch-22,' War Stories and the Novelist's Latest Book, 'Now and Then'
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I’m sorry, some Democrats who keep losing are mad about the new Democrats who keep winning?
Wtf is wrong with establishment Dems? Why can't they look at Mamdani's win in NY and recognize how badly the party needs to change? Is it just money? The horror of sharing power? What about their living, breathing constituents, people who just want to live in a fair world without fear?
“The past isn’t separated from the present. In fact, it’s always present in the landscape, this matrix of meanings and images that’s right there." www.altaonline.com/books/a71375...
The Writer Mapping Los Angeles’s Invisible Past
David L. Ulin joins writer Sam Sweet on a drift through Los Angeles, tracing the lost histories buried beneath the city’s surfaces in his series All Night Menu.
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“You cannot hide flaws that are not flaws but are mere signs that you are part of this world, a place where terrible and wonderful beauties are coming to pieces at every moment and others are constructing themselves out of the remains." www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Brave New World
Deb Olin Unferth’s novel Earth 7 reframes the apocalypse.
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Angelenos still do not feel properly informed about the situation by officials (imagine how the tourists feel!) and I'm urging everyone to follow and support Boyle Heights Beat, who is putting out the best coverage with a newsroom that was built for this moment
Mayor Bass declares local emergency in response to Boyle Heights warehouse fire
Centers in Boyle Heights and East LA will offer masks, food, water, temporary shelter and pet assistance.
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UFC fightfest happening on a sweltering day in the shadow of a joyous global world cup and a citywide celebration of a team that only lost the one game he attended and slept through in the hometown that now boos him lustily the narrative resonances are simply too bountiful
The Jalen M. Brunson And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts
The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.
This also isn't something Metro or the dozens of other transit agencies in California are doing just because of upcoming megaevents. This is something that much every other major transit system in the world is already doing. We're catching up — and bringing 25 smaller agencies with us!
I’ve been waiting for this, it feels like, as long as I’ve been in Los Angeles. www.golden-state.org/d-line-wilsh...
The subway I have been waiting for my entire L.A. life
Metro’s D Line extension is not just functional. It’s the fruition of the dream of rail transit spanning nearly the length of one of the most heavily traveled transportation corridors in the U.S.
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Growing old can be a liberating experience. It allows us to rethink, to clarify or reassess. Late style, in other words, renders creativity more—not less—essential. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
Rock and Roll Faces the Inevitable
Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney are wringing great art and performance out of the relationship between the present and the past.
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This is idiocy. Not only have seniors been paying into the system their whole working lives— ie, a work requirement—but how does a 90 year old with failing cognition and physical infirmities work?
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 3mo agoRepublican New Hampshire Senate candidate John Sununu says he supports a work requirement for seniors on Medicare: "I certainly support a work requirement for able-bodied Medicare recipients."
