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David Ulin

David Ulin

@davidulin

Crafty southpaw. Editor, @airlight_mag.

Los Angeles, CA Katılım Nisan 2009
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Carla ‘Bluechecked’ Marinucci
Here’s what Naples looks like on a weekend night. When you don’t have guns and assault weapons all over the place, people feel safe socializing. What a concept.
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I'm filling out my ballot for California/Los Angeles races today and really feeling the absence of the LA Times editorial board and its well-argued recommendations. @SoCalOpinion, meanwhile, IS still doing endorsements. They would be wise to shout about that early and often.
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David Ulin@davidulin·
@PhilKlay Cat in the Rain. My all time favorite. 1100 words and he encapsulates the entire story of a marriage in what is essentially a single scene.
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David Ulin@davidulin·
@TheLincoln I'm sorry. This is just a terrible sentence, regardless of whether a machine or human wrote it. At least we can aspire to do better than that.
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Lincoln Michel
Lincoln Michel@TheLincoln·
The Granta slop story has, uh, given a new meaning to morning wood
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David Ulin@davidulin·
@aliner I churn out a ton of it. (Without the help of AI, thank you very much.) I just don't share a lot.
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Alina Stefanescu@aliner·
It's hard to read Tokarczuk's use of AI as disconnected from the wave of churn-it-outism that increasingly blurs the line between experimental literature and content production.
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The Atlantic@TheAtlantic·
Paul McCartney’s recent performances confront the last frontier of rock and roll: mortality, @davidulin writes. He considers Jim Windolf’s new book, “Where the Music Had to Go,” and the “late style” of rock: theatln.tc/6rhSn5OH 🎨: Lucy Naland
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John Podhoretz
John Podhoretz@jpodhoretz·
The Guardian’s panel has chosen the 100 greatest novels of all time and has put BELOVED second. That is among the most ludicrous aesthetic judgments in the annals of Western culture. Embarrassing tokenism.
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David Ulin
David Ulin@davidulin·
@FrankieInVegas @jpodhoretz The Lord of the Rings? Please give me a break. Also, Beloved is one of the great works of American literature (although I prefer Song of Solomon), and lists like this are utterly ridiculous as we can see from the vacuity of the discussion on this thread.
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Frankie D@FrankieInVegas·
If you told me it didn't have Dostoevsky near or at the top, I'd tell you it was a list created by lefties. Dostoevsky's highest rank is at 28, Faulkner at 57. Laughable. Unless I missed them, there is NO Huxley, Salinger, Solzhenitsyn, Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Koestler, Buzzati, Eco, Balzac. Entirely transparent. The Lord of the Rings was ranked on numerous previous Guardian lists. It has been erased from this list. Now, square that peg.
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CarmenSoCal@CarmenSoCal·
@meghan_daum no clue but it sounds like he has people in mind & public figures he supposedly shared that info to have gotten on board
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Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum@meghan_daum·
Question: if Spencer Pratt became LA mayor and functioned mostly as a kind of figurehead who was surrounded by a highly competent and forward-thinking team of advisors/deputies, who would be on that team? (Try to be serious, please.)
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David Ulin@davidulin·
@MoiraDonegan As someone raised in New York, who moved to Los Angeles 35 years ago, I think just the opposite.
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Moira Donegan
Moira Donegan@MoiraDonegan·
As a New Yorker, when I go to Los Angeles I think, “Oh, grow up.”
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The Atlantic@TheAtlantic·
Paul McCartney’s recent performances confront the last frontier of rock and roll: mortality, @davidulin writes. He considers Jim Windolf’s new book, “Where the Music Had to Go,” and the “late style” of rock: theatlantic.com/books/2026/05/…
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The Indigenous Jews of the Middle East
@christopherrufo Back when Richard Nixon was governor you had Cheap housing Uncrowded freeways, without congestion A mostly middle class society and Free public universities for all After thirty years of all Democratic rule, all these things are gone So which party helps the working people?
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Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo·
For more than 100 years, California was a red state. We are going to make it red again.
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Parul Sehgal
Parul Sehgal@parul_sehgal·
Vanishing too is the ability/inclination to engage with the work as something apart from its creator, that may know things she doesn't
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David Ulin
David Ulin@davidulin·
@meghan_daum All due respect, it's clear evidence that he has no ideas of substance and no real understanding even of what the language that he's using means.
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Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum@meghan_daum·
Is there any evidence that yelling "commie commie commie" all day about entrenched Democrats actually reaches new voters? Or is it a dopamine-driven feedback loop for people probably not even voting in the election at hand?
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David Ulin
David Ulin@davidulin·
Growing old can be a liberating experience. It allows us to rethink, to clarify or reassess. Late style, in other words, renders creativity more—not less—essential. theatlantic.com/books/2026/05/…
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The Atlantic@TheAtlantic·
Paul McCartney’s recent performances confront the last frontier of rock and roll: mortality, @davidulin writes. He considers Jim Windolf’s new book, “Where the Music Had to Go,” and the “late style” of rock: theatlantic.com/books/2026/05/…
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