David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“We are always self-narrating. We are always trying to make the pieces add up.” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...latimes.comA martini with Ayad Akhtar, the novelist remaking autofiction for the social media ageAs his latest book 'The Radiance' blurs the lines between memory and invention, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author makes a compelling case for why literature remains our richest record of human conscio... 030
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I want to start by pondering attention. www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...altaonline.comThe Short and the Long of ItHow editing American Flash Fiction restored my focus. 012
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Very much looking forward to this event at Chevalier's Books on October 22. chevaliersbooks.com/event/2026-1...chevaliersbooks.comFlash Fiction to Nonfiction Deep Dive with Daniela Gerson and David UlinChevalier's Books is Los Angeles' oldest indie bookstore. As a general trade bookstore and a cornerstone of Larchmont Village, we take great pride in our curation and are confident we can find a book ... 001
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Brevity allows for a lot of movement and leeway, innovation and experimentation. One of the things that’s most resonant to me about flash is that it can blur genre lines and classifications. It’s a place where genres come together and overlap." www.loa.org/news-and-vie...loa.org“It Can Only Be a Moment”: David L. Ulin on the Epiphanies of Flash Fiction - Library of AmericaOver in a blink, the best flash fiction lingers like phosphenes in the mind’s eye, its language and meaning reverberating long after the story ends. In the forthcoming Library of America volume Americ... 022
Reposted by David UlinHill Nadell Literary Agency @hillnadell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Our first look at AMERICAN FLASH FICTION, edited by @davidulin.bsky.social! Coming soon from @libraryofamerica.bsky.social, this anthology collects very short stories from 100 literary luminaries. LA—Join David Ulin and Ivy Pochoda at Skylight Books on 9/23 at 7pm! #flashfiction #anthology 083
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Fifteen years ago, on the tenth anniversary of the towers' fall, I published this essay about New York and Los Angeles, and my relationship with both of them. Feels apropos to reshare it today. granta.com/the-art-of-m...granta.comThe Art of Moving On‘This felt like the moment New York disappeared for me.’ David Ulin ten years after 9/11. 000
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026What are you doing on Wednesday, September 23? Why, coming to Skylight Books, of course, for the launch of American Flash Fiction. I'll be in conversation with Ivy Pochoda. skylightbooks.com/event/2026-0...skylightbooks.comDavid Ulin w/ Ivy Pochoda, "American Flash Fiction"Independent bookstore in Los Angeles, featuring fiction, nonfiction, arts, and children's books. 021
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The most disturbing thing about the proposed $5000 bribe for votes is not that it's illegal nor that it comes from the Huey Long playbook; I can't imagine DJT has any idea who the Kingfish was. It's that he acts as if 5k is a vast sum of money when in his economy it's worth less and less every day. 030
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I had such trouble with it for so long and then one day it just opened up for me. 001
Reposted by David UlinAlan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Unlike Apple & Google @apstylebook.com is clear on what to call a certain Great Lake: "Lake Ontario has carried that name for more than 400 years. Refer to it by its original name. If it is relevant to the story, acknowledge and explain the name Trump has chosen." ckpgtoday.ca/2026/09/08/t...ckpgtoday.caThe Associated Press says it will still refer to Lake Ontario, not Lake AmericaThe Associated Press says it will continue to refer to Lake Ontario by its original name, and not Lake America. It says that as a global news agency, it must ensure place names are easily recognizable... 03713
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“We obliterate ourselves in each other, that is the way of things. … The threats on our freedom will flatten to nothing, it’ll be weather grazing the surface of water.” www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...altaonline.comWest Is WestGrace Krilanovich’s Acid Green Velvet reimagines the Western through a feminist lens. 012
Reposted by David UlinSeán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 16/08/2026“The work . . . consisted in getting rid of every superfluity, more and more, until we really got it down to the bare bones.”—A rare glimpse of Samuel Beckett talking about his craft (thanks @davidcollard.bsky.social)youtu.beSamuel Beckett, Paris, 1987.YouTube video by Michael Ross 1189
Reposted by David UlinHill Nadell Literary Agency @hillnadell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026NEXT WEEK Skylight Books, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social & @littlebrown.bsky.social present a celebration of David Foster Wallace's INFINITE JEST at 30! @2220arts.bsky.social at 7pm, feat. @davidulin.bsky.social in conversation with Bonnie Nadell + MORE! RSVP: skylightbooks.com/event/2026-0...skylightbooks.comAt 2220 Arts: Celebrating INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace at 30!Independent bookstore in Los Angeles, featuring fiction, nonfiction, arts, and children's books. 022
Reposted by David UlinAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 07/08/2026"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."newrepublic.comTrump’s Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt WomenAnd the number of women who have left the workforce since January is more than double the number of men. 871774924
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Thank you, Claire. For this novel and for Site Fidelity. I am grateful to know your work. 020
Reposted by David UlinClaire Boyles @boylesfarms.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Incredibly grateful for this generous and thoughtful review from @davidulin.bsky.social and @altajournal.bsky.social 021
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026“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...altaonline.comClaire Boyles’s Colorado: Water Rights, Fracking, and the High Cost of Western FarmingIn Appraisals, Claire Boyles goes back to the land. 130
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Without naming anybody, one thing that has consistently astonished me throughout my years as an editor is the number of established and well regarded writers whose raw copy is … well … exceedingly raw. 1170
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026What interests me about the debate are less the arguments (since Hollywood is always gonna Hollywood) than how it seems to have activated several overlapping culture clashes: not only right v. left, but also high v. low, and elites v. hoi polloi. For this as much as anything, I want to see the film. 010
Reposted by David UlinJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Hey so turns out discovering why we used to have all those food safety regulations in the first place is not all that much fun 204120652385
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I have a lot of respect for Wilson, and have read her Iliad and Odyssey. I also plan to see the movie, although I haven't done so yet. But with the exception of the final post in her thread, which is hilarious, the rest reads to me like an Easterner's projection of a very cliched LA. 100
Reposted by David UlinHill Nadell Literary Agency @hillnadell.bsky.social · 23/07/20266 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...latimes.comIs 'The Catcher in the Rye' phony or still cool? 6 writers reflect on its legacy at 75We 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. 021
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Delighted to have three new poems in the summer issue of New World Writing Quarterly. newworldwriting.net/david-l-ulin...newworldwriting.netDavid 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 030
Reposted by David UlinGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/07/2026According 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. 172128780
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Just finished this, and Jesus fucking Christ, what a book. 030
Reposted by David UlinAmanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Graham 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. 30290481370
Reposted by David UlinLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The majority of GOP Supreme Court judges voting against birthright citizenship is a reminder that most conservatives fundamentally hate America. 0306
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I teach that text on the regular. His control, not to mention his occasional absurdism, are impeccable. I’ve read it more times than I can remember and still it astonishes me. 130
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026In 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-...latimes.comBanterweight ChampsVerbal 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' 041
Reposted by David UlinCaleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I’m sorry, some Democrats who keep losing are mad about the new Democrats who keep winning? 017426
Reposted by David UlinKaren Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Wtf 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? 161
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026“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...altaonline.comThe Writer Mapping Los Angeles’s Invisible PastDavid 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. 094
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I prefer Music for Films, but this one is pretty great as well. 010
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I’ve been wondering the same, although I haven’t watched any episodes yet. 010
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026“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...altaonline.comBrave New WorldDeb Olin Unferth’s novel Earth 7 reframes the apocalypse. 000
Reposted by David UlinAlissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Angelenos 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 momentthelalocal.orgMayor Bass declares local emergency in response to Boyle Heights warehouse fireCenters in Boyle Heights and East LA will offer masks, food, water, temporary shelter and pet assistance. 28136
