David Ulin
@davidulin
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Crafty southpaw. Editor, @airlight_mag.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined April 2009
“Unreleased, unrecorded, performed once or twice a cappella, no instruments at all in its history—the Platonic ideal of a song, for me, so tenuous that it can barely be said to exist; momentary; self-contained.”
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In This Year, John Darnielle (de)mystifies the song.
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"I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it." ~ Joan Didion
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"One cannot make up time. One can make up a story or a face or a bed. Ugh. I find it all repellent."
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In The Pelican Child, Joy Williams offers 12 takes on the weirdness of the world.
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Get ready to hear this word a lot from me.
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Belief, however, is an inside job. This, too, is a lesson I have learned. What really happened that July 4? Then and now, I believe a penny saved my life. https://t.co/XVT8jqrS8m
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As the coin fades out, David L. Ulin reflects on its invaluable magic.
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"I am a gatherer, reaping whatever random pennies I discover in the street. Some are wheat pennies, from the early 20th century. Some are zinc-coated steel, from World War II. All of them conjoin to form a web, a matrix," @davidulin writes. https://t.co/OINudmjlcz
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As the coin fades out, David L. Ulin reflects on its invaluable magic.
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"You don’t owe anyone your attention. The comment section is not a town hall where you’re required to appear. You wrote the piece— that’s your contribution. You are not obligated to watch people tear it (or you) apart for sport. " ~ Elizabeth Austin https://t.co/fgozU2Wxmk
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By Elizabeth Austin The morning after my SNAP piece ran in the New York Times, I received an email from a man who inexplicably entered his personal information into my website’s “Contact” form. His…
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Just talking about this very idea with a creative writing student yesterday.
"I tell my students; I tell everybody this. When I begin a creative writing class I say, 'I know you've heard all your life, "Write what you know." Well I am here to tell you, "You don't know nothing. So do not write what you know. Think up something else." ~ Toni Morrison
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"I tell my students; I tell everybody this. When I begin a creative writing class I say, 'I know you've heard all your life, "Write what you know." Well I am here to tell you, "You don't know nothing. So do not write what you know. Think up something else." ~ Toni Morrison
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"I used to think commitment meant losing myself in the book, the project, the next big idea that might save me from me. But now I see it’s something else. The real practice is not abandoning my creative self when the mirror gets too close." ~Heidi Lender https://t.co/5mPFWDbpan
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By Heidi Lender I wrote the final word of the third (tenth) draft of my 10-years-in-the-works memoir, closed my laptop and bopped around my kitchen with Pharrell Williams like a teen from 2013 in t…
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“Use a reader's leisure time in such a way that the reader will not feel his time has been wasted.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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I'm looking forward to never, ever hearing about Andrew Cuomo again except on Page 6 of the NY Post.
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On Thursday November 6th, Emma Donoghue, the acclaimed author of "Room", discusses her latest novel, "The Paris Express" alongside @WritersBloc and @davidulin at the Lumiere Music Hall. 📚 🎟️ Grab your tickets here, you don't want to miss it: https://t.co/JeyaKAxveJ
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As we grow older, “loss becomes the primary condition of living,” Nick Cave says. “That doesn’t mean you’re in a hopeless, grief-stricken state all the time; it just means that you carry a deeper understanding of what it is to be human.” https://t.co/udb9ODQWt7
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The only person fleeing after Tuesday:
"If you elect a socialist mayor, you will see businesses flee New York, wealth flee New York," Cuomo says.
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"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.”
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In At Last, Marisa Silver portrays a family from the inside out.
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LOS ANGELES PEOPLE, YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS: Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @ClaireDederer. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM 📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC). RSVP Link: https://t.co/iN0talA9cL
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