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David L. Ulin

David L. Ulin
David L. Ulin is a contributing editor to Literary Hub. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, his books include Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.


We’re All Just Extras Here: Wandering the Back Streets of Old Hollywood

David L. Ulin Traces a Season of Displacement in Old Los Angeles
January 26, 2022  By David L. Ulin
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Did This Iconic 1962 Short Film Show Us Our Dark Future?

David Ulin Reflects on Death, Science Fi and Scenes From La Jetée
November 7, 2019  By David L. Ulin
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On the Countercultural Influence of Peanuts

David Ulin Considers Linus, Boy Philosopher
October 22, 2019  By David L. Ulin
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On the Excavation of My Desk

David Ulin Digs Through Stacks of Memories, Literal and Figurative
January 10, 2019  By David L. Ulin
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The Beats’ Holy Grail: The Letter That Inspired On the Road

On Neal Cassady's Rediscovered "Joan Anderson Letter"
October 5, 2018  By David L. Ulin
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David Ulin on the Broken Politics of Rage

Two Minutes is Long Enough for Things to Go Wrong
March 19, 2018  By David L. Ulin
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Fire, Fury, and America’s Failure to Learn From the Past

David L. Ulin on Revisiting Hiroshima, and the Dark, Empty Rhetoric of the President
August 16, 2017  By David L. Ulin
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In Grief, Joan Didion’s Move From Fiction to Memoir

David Ulin on Moving from Journalism to Fiction to Memoir
June 15, 2017  By David L. Ulin
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How to Be a Patriot in America

David L. Ulin on Who We Are, and Where We're Going
February 21, 2017  By David L. Ulin
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How to Report the Truth in the Age of Trump

Sarah Glidden Sees the Objective in Life's Subjective Details
January 19, 2017  By David L. Ulin
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David Ulin: Beware a Kinder, Gentler American Fascism

Bear Witness and Behave As If You Are Free
November 16, 2016  By David L. Ulin
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Leave Elena Ferrante Alone

David L. Ulin on the Baffling Impulse to Unmask a Beloved Writer
October 3, 2016  By David L. Ulin
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Jenny Diski’s Jisei: On Death Poems and In Gratitude

How Writers Approach the Unapproachable
July 21, 2016  By David L. Ulin
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Luis J. Rodriguez: LA is a Great Poetry Town.

David L. Ulin on Los Angeles's poet laureate
May 13, 2016  By David L. Ulin
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John D’Agata and the Art of the American Essay

Exploring the Limits of Non-Fiction, One Fact at a Time
March 17, 2016  By David L. Ulin
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Donald Trump, All-American Know-Nothing Nativist

As Sinclair Lewis Foretold, It Can Always Happen Here
February 1, 2016  By David L. Ulin
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