"The ordinary can tell a deep story. I don’t write novels that have enormous adventure plots, or mysteries where a secret is unfurled. I’m interested in finding a specific detail that allows me to explore something resonant and deep.”
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Writer’s Room: Form and Function
In At Last, Marisa Silver portrays a family from the inside out.
www.altaonline.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"The ordinary can tell a deep story. I don’t write novels that have enormous adventure plots, or mysteries where a secret is unfurled. I’m interested in finding a specific detail that allows me to explore something resonant and deep.”
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
LOS ANGELES PEOPLE, YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS:
Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM
📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC).
RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...
Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM
📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC).
RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...
October 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
LOS ANGELES PEOPLE, YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS:
Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM
📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC).
RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...
Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM
📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC).
RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...
Glad to live in California, a state where I can still walk into a pharmacy and walked out vaxxed for flu and COVID. It's called science, in case you were wondering.
October 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Glad to live in California, a state where I can still walk into a pharmacy and walked out vaxxed for flu and COVID. It's called science, in case you were wondering.
Delighted to panelize this afternoon at the Biltmore for the Urban History Association conference with this stellar trio of luminaries: Naomi Hirahara, Hector Tobar, and Walter Mosley.
October 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Delighted to panelize this afternoon at the Biltmore for the Urban History Association conference with this stellar trio of luminaries: Naomi Hirahara, Hector Tobar, and Walter Mosley.
You know you don't want to miss this.
October 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
You know you don't want to miss this.
Reposted by David Ulin
The best way to find your next read might be closer at hand than you thought. Lydia Davis’s new book, "Into the Weeds," charts a more serendipitous path to reading, David L. Ulin writes:
How to Discover Books
The best way to find your next read might be closer at hand than you thought.
bit.ly
October 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The best way to find your next read might be closer at hand than you thought. Lydia Davis’s new book, "Into the Weeds," charts a more serendipitous path to reading, David L. Ulin writes:
Reposted by David Ulin
Congratulations @clairedederer.bsky.social!!!
We are delighted to announce that @clairedederer.bsky.social will receive the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature and will accept the prize during an onstage event at USC on November 12, 2025.
Please come and celebrate Claire and her incisive, brilliant work.
open.substack.com/pub/airlight...
Please come and celebrate Claire and her incisive, brilliant work.
open.substack.com/pub/airlight...
Announcing the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature
The $15,000 prize is awarded annually to authors with a body of work behind them, but also with significant potential. Previous recipients include Christos Ikonomou, Victoria Chang, and Hari Kunzru.
open.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Congratulations @clairedederer.bsky.social!!!
We are delighted to announce that @clairedederer.bsky.social will receive the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature and will accept the prize during an onstage event at USC on November 12, 2025.
Please come and celebrate Claire and her incisive, brilliant work.
open.substack.com/pub/airlight...
Please come and celebrate Claire and her incisive, brilliant work.
open.substack.com/pub/airlight...
Announcing the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature
The $15,000 prize is awarded annually to authors with a body of work behind them, but also with significant potential. Previous recipients include Christos Ikonomou, Victoria Chang, and Hari Kunzru.
open.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We are delighted to announce that @clairedederer.bsky.social will receive the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature and will accept the prize during an onstage event at USC on November 12, 2025.
Please come and celebrate Claire and her incisive, brilliant work.
open.substack.com/pub/airlight...
Please come and celebrate Claire and her incisive, brilliant work.
open.substack.com/pub/airlight...
“I found that I was thinking about reading—reading the writing of someone else.”
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
The Writing-Advice Book That Teaches Us How to Read
In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.
www.theatlantic.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“I found that I was thinking about reading—reading the writing of someone else.”
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
“There used to be more time to make a getaway. Now they’re flashing everybody’s mug shot all around the world in the blink of an eye, pretty soon there’s no place to run anymore.”
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Conspiracy Theory
In Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon comes full circle—and then some.
www.altaonline.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“There used to be more time to make a getaway. Now they’re flashing everybody’s mug shot all around the world in the blink of an eye, pretty soon there’s no place to run anymore.”
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
“The plot of this book is persistence in making myself available.”
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Life Writing
In A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories, Jonathan Lethem takes us back and forth in time.
www.altaonline.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“The plot of this book is persistence in making myself available.”
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Reposted by David Ulin
Gratitude and love to Paul Yamazaki, City Lights's longtime book buyer, who will receive the Northern California Book Awards GROUNDBREAKER AWARD at their ceremony this Saturday, 2pm, held at the SF Main Library’s Koret Auditorium.
It's free to attend.
See you there?
poetryflash.org/programs/?p=...
It's free to attend.
See you there?
poetryflash.org/programs/?p=...
September 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Gratitude and love to Paul Yamazaki, City Lights's longtime book buyer, who will receive the Northern California Book Awards GROUNDBREAKER AWARD at their ceremony this Saturday, 2pm, held at the SF Main Library’s Koret Auditorium.
It's free to attend.
See you there?
poetryflash.org/programs/?p=...
It's free to attend.
See you there?
poetryflash.org/programs/?p=...
Reposted by David Ulin
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“We need a new way of thinking about fire: as not only natural disaster, but also environmental threat with a high risk of long-term harms to health,” David L. Ulin, a professor at the University of Southern California, writes.
“We need a new way of thinking about fire: as not only natural disaster, but also environmental threat with a high risk of long-term harms to health,” David L. Ulin, a professor at the University of Southern California, writes.
Opinion | Los Angeles Wildfires Left the City With a Toxic Mess
Urban wildfires are becoming public health emergencies.
nyti.ms
August 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“We need a new way of thinking about fire: as not only natural disaster, but also environmental threat with a high risk of long-term harms to health,” David L. Ulin, a professor at the University of Southern California, writes.
“We need a new way of thinking about fire: as not only natural disaster, but also environmental threat with a high risk of long-term harms to health,” David L. Ulin, a professor at the University of Southern California, writes.
Reposted by David Ulin
Wildfire "survivors in Los Angeles, as well as elsewhere, are on their own more than ever." @davidulin.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
Opinion | Los Angeles Is Contaminated Now
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wildfire "survivors in Los Angeles, as well as elsewhere, are on their own more than ever." @davidulin.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
Reposted by David Ulin
@davidulin.bsky.social in @nytimes.com Los Angeles Is Contaminated Now www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
Opinion | Los Angeles Is Contaminated Now
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
@davidulin.bsky.social in @nytimes.com Los Angeles Is Contaminated Now www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
As the wildlife urban interface expands and fires become more toxic, Californians have become, perhaps, the canaries in the coal mine, in a world where environmental devastation provoked by climate change is now a commonplace.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
Opinion | Los Angeles Is Contaminated Now
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
As the wildlife urban interface expands and fires become more toxic, Californians have become, perhaps, the canaries in the coal mine, in a world where environmental devastation provoked by climate change is now a commonplace.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
"A tale has many tails, and many heads, particularly if it’s true. Like life, it is a river with many branches, rivulets, creeks, and distributaries. I’ll get to everything, I swear.”
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Rabih Alameddine’s New Novel Is a Puzzle Worth Solving
In The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), Rabih Alameddine spins a tale within a tale within a tale.
www.altaonline.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"A tale has many tails, and many heads, particularly if it’s true. Like life, it is a river with many branches, rivulets, creeks, and distributaries. I’ll get to everything, I swear.”
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Reposted by David Ulin
Zócalo's latest miniseries explores L.A.'s Literary Public Square. Read from @davidulin.bsky.social on his journey from NYC to L.A., Brittany Menjivar & Sammy Loren on the "alt-lit" scene, @lynellgeorge.bsky.social on making literary community, and John Szabo on libraries. zps.la/LitLA
Los Angeles' Literary Public Square
Literature—the reading it, the writing it—has a reputation of being a solitary endeavor, best conducted in dark, chilly garrets. But the Los Angeles sun has a way of burning off clichés, allowing them...
zps.la
August 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Zócalo's latest miniseries explores L.A.'s Literary Public Square. Read from @davidulin.bsky.social on his journey from NYC to L.A., Brittany Menjivar & Sammy Loren on the "alt-lit" scene, @lynellgeorge.bsky.social on making literary community, and John Szabo on libraries. zps.la/LitLA
Rereading, of course, can be a complicated process. Or, more accurately, it can cut both ways.
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
75 Years Later, The Martian Chronicles Still Divides Readers
Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles turns 75 this year. How does it hold up?
www.altaonline.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Rereading, of course, can be a complicated process. Or, more accurately, it can cut both ways.
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Reposted by David Ulin
Zócalo is thinking about Los Angeles' literary public square. Where do readers and writers come together to tell stories and imagine together? Long-time L.A. writer @davidulin.bsky.social on the city as its own literary genre: zps.la/4m7WrFK
Los Angeles Is Its Own Literary Genre | L.A.’s Literary Public Square
The City and Its Writers Defy Clichés, Expectations, and Boundaries
zps.la
August 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Zócalo is thinking about Los Angeles' literary public square. Where do readers and writers come together to tell stories and imagine together? Long-time L.A. writer @davidulin.bsky.social on the city as its own literary genre: zps.la/4m7WrFK
We need to be able to upset the hierarchies, escape the strictures, to follow our work where it will go. This, too, is what Los Angeles taught me: that I would have to think for myself.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/los-angeles-...
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/los-angeles-...
Los Angeles Is Its Own Literary Genre | L.A.’s Literary Public Square
The City and Its Writers Defy Clichés, Expectations, and Boundaries
www.zocalopublicsquare.org
August 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We need to be able to upset the hierarchies, escape the strictures, to follow our work where it will go. This, too, is what Los Angeles taught me: that I would have to think for myself.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/los-angeles-...
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/los-angeles-...
Reposted by David Ulin
I wish I were old and the whole damned thing were finished; then I shouldn't get this depressed feeling for nothing at all.
July 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I wish I were old and the whole damned thing were finished; then I shouldn't get this depressed feeling for nothing at all.
It’s a very low bar, I know, but Mike Lee must be the stupidest US Senator.
July 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It’s a very low bar, I know, but Mike Lee must be the stupidest US Senator.