David L. Ulin

Biography

David L. Ulin is the author or editor of several books, including The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time (Sasquatch, 2018); Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles (California, 2015), which was shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay; and Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America, 2002), which won a California Book Award. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015, and teaches at the University of Southern California.

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#VQRTRUESTORY / Winter 2019

The High Window

By David L. Ulin

The first address is of the house we rented twenty years ago, when our kids were young. Ten minutes on foot—half a mile—from the place where we now live. In reality, however, there is no address, not any longer.

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#VQRTRUESTORY / Summer 2019

Dancing Days

By David L. Ulin

It’s Sunday morning in September and I’m walking Eighth Street when I see it: spray of words in green and pink, framed in the middle of the pavement as if an illustration of some kind. In the middle of the pavement?
ESSAYS / Spring 2018

Seeker

By David L. Ulin ,  Illustration by Patrick Bremer

Denis Johnson and the Literature of Last Things
ESSAYS / Summer 2015

Fifteen Takes on California

By David L. Ulin

California as land’s end, world’s end: It collapses underneath the weight of such a reading, as it must. It reveals the limits of our history—demographic history, social history, history of technology, our sense of this place as final...